Paul Schweikher (American, 1903–1997)
Gerhardt Kaufmann (American, 20th Cent.)
Charles W. Eliason Jr. House, Chicago, Illinois, Interior Perspective
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Paul Schweikher (American, 1903–1997)
Gerhardt Kaufmann (American, 20th Cent.)1932
Charles W. Eliason Jr. House, Chicago, Illinois, Interior Perspective
Paul Schweikher (American, 1903–1997) Gerhardt Kaufmann (American, 20th Cent.) →20th Centurypresentation drawingarchitectural drawing
Date
1932
Medium
Ink and pencil on buff board
Dimensions
39.5 × 47.4 cm (15 9/16 × 18 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy and Paul Schweikher
In contrast to the wood construction that defined his mature career, Paul Schweikher’s unbuilt Eliason House was clad in corrugated sheet metal and terminated in a domed observatory for the client, a hobbyist astronomer. Years before Charles and Ray Eames used industrial steel frames to build their house in the Pacific Palisades, Schweikher defined the interior of the Eliason House with exposed open-truss joists. Strip windows, bent tubular-steel furniture, prefabricated built-in cabinetry, and a modern Danish pendant lamp designed by Poul Henningsen completed this avant-garde design. This unconventional project was one of the few American contributions to the landmark exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1932 that coined the term International Style.
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