California Design VI
California Design VI 1960 Pasadena Art Museum Pasadena, CA
1960
As ERA Industries grows, Jerome’s increasing responsibilities for design, production, and marketing necessitate the discontinuation of the Jenev ceramics line. The Ackermans’ daughter, Laura, is born.
California Design V
California Design VPasadena Art Museum, 1959
California Design V
California Design V 1959 Pasadena Art Museum Pasadena, CA
1959
Evelyn experiments with the hand-hooking technique, leading to a group of designs for area rugs that are produced in Japan. Unable to compete with large rug manufacturers, they produce smaller pieces for use as wall [...]
1959
Evelyn designs and they produce their initial group of carved-wood bas-relief wall panels, the first of which is St. George and the Dragon. Jerome employs the multiple-spindle machine used in the furniture industry to rough [...]
California Design IV
California Design IVPasadena Art Museum,1958
California Design IV
California Design IV 1958 Pasadena Art Museum Pasadena, CA
1958
Evelyn designs an exterior mosaic mural, Sea, Land, and Sky, for a Louis Mazzeti office building on Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.
1958
Experimenting with new materials, Evelyn explores the silk screen process and produces a series of designs on various materials, with Kites as her first design.