Flounder - Someone's ripping you off - Tiki Carving

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Jan 27, 2005 4:49 PM On 2005-01-27 03:14, ToonToonz wrote: Who is the original creator of the ceramic mug? He never seems to get credit anywhere. I would never pass up on that in the rare case where I actually knew the mug designer. Florian "Gabe" Gabriel gets credited in the captions to the very photo in question on page 105 of the BOT. also here: "....Stephen (Crane) was drawing strongly from the “Beachcomber” and “Trader” traditions. So strongly that art director Florian Gabriel remembers that as a requirement for job as designer for Stephen Crane and Associates he was asked to go to Trader Vic’s at the Beverly Hilton (which once boasted five fifteen foot high exterior Tikis) and sketch a corner of the restaurant. He did so successfully and from then on formed a design team together with George Nakashima, who had previously worked for Welton Becket, architect of the Beverly Hilton. They went on to help construct the satellite islands SCA began to install in other American cities at the end of the 50s..." and here: "...Bob Thornton always chose professional Polynesian pop artists to expand on his realm, hiring George Nakashima and Florian Gabriel of Stephen Crane and Associates as art directors and using decor by Oceanic Arts in Whittier to give the Mai Kai that much claimed “authentic” touch..."

On 2005-01-27 03:14, ToonToonz wrote:

Who is the original creator of the ceramic mug? He never seems to get credit anywhere.

I would never pass up on that in the rare case where I actually knew the mug designer. Florian "Gabe" Gabriel gets credited in the captions to the very photo in question on page 105 of the BOT.

also here:

"....Stephen (Crane) was drawing strongly from the “Beachcomber” and “Trader” traditions. So strongly that art director Florian Gabriel remembers that as a requirement for job as designer for Stephen Crane and Associates he was asked to go to Trader Vic’s at the Beverly Hilton (which once boasted five fifteen foot high exterior Tikis) and sketch a corner of the restaurant. He did so successfully and from then on formed a design team together with George Nakashima, who had previously worked for Welton Becket, architect of the Beverly Hilton. They went on to help construct the satellite islands SCA began to install in other American cities at the end of the 50s..."

and here:

"...Bob Thornton always chose professional Polynesian pop artists to expand on his realm, hiring George Nakashima and Florian Gabriel of Stephen Crane and Associates as art directors and using decor by Oceanic Arts in Whittier to give the Mai Kai that much claimed “authentic” touch..."

Post #137797 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jan 27, 2005 4:49 PM