Looking Boxes

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Looking Box 367

Point Arena Lighthouse, Point Arena, California; Detail of Lens; Pacific Ocean at Point Arena

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 364

Watson Schoolhouse, Bodega, California; Butterfly Collection at Museum of Natural History, New York

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 361

Ferris Wheel on the Thames, London; Alexander Girard Folk Art Museum, Santa Fe

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 359

Pompidou Center, Paris; Disney Center, Los Angeles; Woodpile at The Sea Ranch, California

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 368

Hamburger Stand in the Midwest; Church in Tallinn, Estonia; Munich Facade

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 349

Balustrades, Munich; Miniature Cow Collection, Texas

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 348

Victorian house in Ukiah; California; Hotel on Rhine, Germany

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 351

Courtyard Structure at The Sea Ranch, California; Flowers at Botanical Gardens, Mendocino, California

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 345

Shadows from Placecard Markers, Dinner Table Setting, Anchor Bay, California; Flowers, Botanical Gardens, Mendocino, California

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 344

Interior of House, The Sea Ranch, California; Detail of Dahlia, Sonoma, California

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 343

Interior of Placewares shop, Gualala, California; Detail of Graphic Display Wall at Placewares+LyndonDesign, Gualala, California

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 342

View From Lighthouse Tower of Lighthouse Keepers House, now Museum, Point Arena, California; Courtyard at Carnavallet Museum, Paris

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 341

Doors to Artist Tina Beebe Studio, Malibu, California; Marimekko Umbrellas, Bentwood Chairs, Second Floor of architect Benjamin Thompson's 1969 Design Research Building, Cambridge

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 339

Detail of Windows at Fort Ross State Historic Park, Fort Ross, California; Courtard Grounds within Fort Ross Compound

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 338

Victorian House, now Shop, Mendocino, California; Michelin Man Toy, London

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 330

Victorian House, now Professional Building, Ukiah, California; Plastic Toy Figure on Handrail in House in Mequon, Wisconsin

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 328

Architectural model in Deutsches Museum, Munich; flowers in Mendocino Botanical Gardens, California

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 325

Courtyard Entry, Cibolo Creek Ranch, Texas; Column Capital, Carnavallet Museum, Paris

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 323

Scale Model of Austrian Town, Deutches Museum, Munich; Hotel de Ville, Paris

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

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Looking Box 322

Russian Candlesticks; Chapel at Fort Ross State Historic Park, Fort Ross, California

$75.00 (+ $15.00 Shipping)

Ordering

To order, simply browse the online gallery. Click each Looking Box to see a larger image and a shopping cart button. (For your online security, we use PayPal.)

Remember, each Looking Box is one-of-a-kind, so you can only order one of each.

Custom Looking Boxes

I am happy to make custom looking boxes with your own photographs, for an additional $25.00.

Please email Maynard Hale Lyndon for information about ordering Custom Looking Boxes.

Looking Boxes are my layered constructions wherein I juxtapose images from many thousands of photographs I have taken over the years, stretching back to1962. The Looking Box frames are crafted from bamboo. They have a solid back with a single hole, so they can be mounted on a wall or simply displayed on a table or mantle. Every Looking Box is one-of-a-kind and signed. There are no duplicates.

Pricing

Square (6"x6"x2") $75.00

Rectangle (6"x9"x2") $100

Rectangle (9"x6"x2") $100

If you prefer to place your order over the telephone, please call 707.884.1184

Maynard Hale Lyndon began drawing, painting, and making models in his childhood. Ever since, architecture and industrial design have been at the center of his entrepreneurial and corporate adventures, including the award-winning toy store he founded (Santa Monica,1967), and positions he held as Director of Product Development for Creative Playthings (Princeton); Forms&Surfaces (Santa Barbara); and Design Research (Boston).

Maynard and his wife Lu Wendel Lyndon (ongoing collaborator, visionary, and critic),founded Placewares in 1978, Boston, and their product design firm in 1983. Upon returning to northern California's Sea Ranch, the couple opened their Placewares design store in Gualala in 2005—and added their fine arts gallery with a focus on architecture and design; thus the combined name of Placewares+LyndonDesign.

My passion is assembling moments of observation through my camera, so that each Looking Box is a kind of choreography of memory and impression, color and form, scale and shape, image and idea. I often combine architectural views (with carefully sliced-out voids), details of places, and artifacts in surprising and even serendipitous scenes.

From my thousands of photographs, which I’ve been taking since the 1960s—largely architecture and details—I put into my little Boxes a juxtaposition of places and imagery which in most cases are not found together. So for me, making the Boxes, and for the viewer there can be a sparking of memories of places and people. Discovering a bit of Paris or Venice co-mingled with the rocky shoreline of the Pacific, for instance, sets the mind to thinking and pondering and reflecting.

Now that we have moved to the West Coast, we have re-opened Placewares in the small northern California coastal town of Gualala. Placewares, a name we coined and registered in 1977, is now a part of our Placewares Projects company, with continued close connection to our industrial design firm LyndonDesign.

Our California Placewares store is focused on design + art for the home. Things for entertaining and for play. Things useful and things simple and well designed. Things awe-inspiring because of their design and fabrication. Things made locally and things made far away. Things to be treasured and enjoyed. Things that feel right ‘at home’ on this beautiful coast.

In our internet store, we offer some of the products our customers have enjoyed most, as well as small photos of our store and art gallery. We invite you to come to Gualala (100 miles north of San Francisco, adjacent to The Sea Ranch) and enjoy this lovely part of the world. Stop in our new place, and say hello. We look forward to meeting you or hearing from you!

Maynard Hale Lyndon

Placewares+LyndonDesign

(design store + fine arts gallery)
39114 Ocean Drive (mile marker 1 on Highway 1)
P.O. Box 529
Gualala, CA 95445

(707) 884-1184