Rudolph Schindler
American, born Austria, 1887-1953
Wilshire Medical Office Side Chair
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Rudolph Schindler
American, born Austria, 1887-1953c. 1943
Wilshire Medical Office Side Chair
Rudolph Schindler American, born Austria, 1887-1953 →20th Centurydesignchair
Date
c. 1943
Medium
Plywood veneer
Dimensions
78.7 × 35.6 × 55.9 cm (31 × 14 × 22 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Fund, Mary Waller Langhorne Endowment, Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and Walter E. Heller Foundation Endowment
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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