Dresser with mirror from the Milton and Ruth Shep commission, Silver Lake

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Dresser with mirror from the Milton and Ruth Shep commission, Silver Lake

United States, circa 1934-1938
Furnishings; Furniture
Gumwood, mirror glass
70 1/2 × 105 × 26 3/8 in.
Gift of Ruth Shep Polen (AC1995.81.19.1-.16)
Decorative Arts and Design
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

This monumental dresser is one of almost twenty pieces in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s collection that Schindler designed for the unrealized Silver Lake house of Milton and Ruth Shep....
This monumental dresser is one of almost twenty pieces in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s collection that Schindler designed for the unrealized Silver Lake house of Milton and Ruth Shep. Its scale and custom nature indicate that it was made for a wealthy client. The dresser’s modular elements, however, were the basis of what Schindler termed “unit furniture,” which was intended to be a flexible and inexpensive way to furnish modern homes.

(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)
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Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez.  Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley:  University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

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  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez.  Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley:  University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

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  • The California pop-up book. New York: Universe Pub. in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los  Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013. 
  • Noriega, Chon A., Mari Carmen Ramírez, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas. Home--So Different, So Appealing. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2017.
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Exhibition history

  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012