Lot 334: RUDOLPH SCHINDLER

RUDOLPH SCHINDLER CHEST OF DRAWERS pine 13 3/4 x 22 x 22 in. (34.9 x 55.9 x 55.9 cm) circa 1933 from the "Schindler Units" series

Marla C. Berns, Ed., The Furniture of R. M. Schindler, Seattle, 1997, p. 132 (for a drawing of the model)

"Schindler Units" were the lone attempt by the architect to develop a mass-produced line of furniture, with a patent applied for in the mid 1930's. He employed examples from the series in the Shep Commission, Los Angeles, of which surviving works are in the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd, Los Angeles.