About this artwork
Trained in Vienna, architect Rudolph Schindler began working in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Chicago studio in 1918. Two years later he moved to Los Angeles in Wright’s employ while developing his own practice. While influenced by Craftsman-style forms, Schindler’s furniture also employs simplified assembly methods and economical materials. He used this side chair design, perfected over the course of his career, in commercial and residential projects. Like many of Schindler’s designs, the plans for this low, reclining chair are so simple that any amateur carpenter could fabricate them, using only a single sheet of ¾-inch plywood.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Rudolph Michael Schindler
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Title
- Wilshire Medical Office Side Chair
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1938–1948
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Medium
- Plywood veneer
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Dimensions
- 78.7 × 35.6 × 55.9 cm (31 × 14 × 22 in.)
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Credit Line
- Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Fund, Mary Waller Langhorne Endowment, Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and Walter E. Heller Foundation Endowment
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Reference Number
- 2006.751
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