Xanadu Gallery -- more PNG art on the San Francisco Peninsula - General Tiki

H Humuhumu Member San Francisco Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 3691	H Humuhumu Posted posted on Tue, Apr 3, 2007 3:29 PM This weekend, Hanford and I went for a stroll along the downtown area of Menlo Park, which is just on the other side of Stanford University from us. (We hadn't explored Menlo Park before -- it's pretty cool! There's a neat old midcentury coffee shop we want to check out. But I digress...) There was a big gallery/antiques place called Xanadu Gallery that had some beatiful old Chinese pieces in the window... we almost passed it by, but Hanford peered in a bit further than I did -- and spied a PNG mask on the wall toward the back! The place had a whole bunch of PNG stuff. An overwhelming amount. Also a few Tahitian and Marquesan pieces, but mostly Papua New Guinea items. About 1/2 - 1/3 of it was for sale, the rest were part of a private collection and were for display only. There were tikis, masks, war clubs, drums -- even a couple of canoes. I asked the manager of the gallery if there was any connection with the art here and the Papua New Guinea collection on display at the nearby Palo Alto Trader Vic's, and she confirmed my suspicions -- this gallery is owned by Mr. Hanley (I keep forgetting his first name), who is also part-owner of the Palo Alto Trader Vic's. There is no connection, though, with the Papua New Guinea sculpture garden on the Stanford Campus, though -- that's just a coincidence. The manager, Lija (or Ellie, for short), was very friendly and helpful, and let me take lots of pictures. Lija told me that Xanadu has another, larger location up in the city (in a Frank Lloyd Wright building), that has much older Oceanic art pieces. So there are three different places to see beautiful Papua New Guinea art within just a couple miles: Xanadu Gallery, the garden at Stanford, and the Palo Alto Trader Vic's. What are the odds? Here's the whole album of photos: http://photo.humuhumu.com/v/pnginmenlopark/ Here are just a few of the pictures I took: Check out this sign from the parking lot, complete with very helpful diagram: So that's what I've been doing wrong!

This weekend, Hanford and I went for a stroll along the downtown area of Menlo Park, which is just on the other side of Stanford University from us. (We hadn't explored Menlo Park before -- it's pretty cool! There's a neat old midcentury coffee shop we want to check out. But I digress...)

There was a big gallery/antiques place called Xanadu Gallery that had some beatiful old Chinese pieces in the window... we almost passed it by, but Hanford peered in a bit further than I did -- and spied a PNG mask on the wall toward the back!

The place had a whole bunch of PNG stuff. An overwhelming amount. Also a few Tahitian and Marquesan pieces, but mostly Papua New Guinea items. About 1/2 - 1/3 of it was for sale, the rest were part of a private collection and were for display only. There were tikis, masks, war clubs, drums -- even a couple of canoes.

I asked the manager of the gallery if there was any connection with the art here and the Papua New Guinea collection on display at the nearby Palo Alto Trader Vic's, and she confirmed my suspicions -- this gallery is owned by Mr. Hanley (I keep forgetting his first name), who is also part-owner of the Palo Alto Trader Vic's. There is no connection, though, with the Papua New Guinea sculpture garden on the Stanford Campus, though -- that's just a coincidence. The manager, Lija (or Ellie, for short), was very friendly and helpful, and let me take lots of pictures. Lija told me that Xanadu has another, larger location up in the city (in a Frank Lloyd Wright building), that has much older Oceanic art pieces.

So there are three different places to see beautiful Papua New Guinea art within just a couple miles: Xanadu Gallery, the garden at Stanford, and the Palo Alto Trader Vic's. What are the odds?

Here's the whole album of photos:
http://photo.humuhumu.com/v/pnginmenlopark/

Here are just a few of the pictures I took: