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Richard Neutra
Chair from Channel Heights Housing Project, San Pedro1941-1942

Not on view
Low-slung lounge chair with honey-brown wood frame, woven leather strap seat, vertical slat back, and a small worn canvas cushion at the top
Wooden lounge chair with angled X-shaped base, slatted seat and back of thin bent wood strips, and a small cream fabric headrest cushion attached at the top.
Wooden lounge chair with an angular X-shaped base, slatted seat and back, woven leather straps across the seat, and a small rectangular cushion at the backrest.
Wooden lounge chair with X-shaped base, woven leather strap seat, vertical slatted back, and a small worn cushion at the headrest.
Wooden lounge chair with a sculpted oak frame, slatted seat and back of bent wood strips, angled crossed legs, and a worn cream leather headrest cushion, photographed against a dark background.

Richard Neutra, Chair from Channel Heights Housing Project, San Pedro, 1941-1942, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Thomas S. Hines, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Designer
Richard Neutra
Austria, also active United States and Germany, 1892-1970
Title
Chair from Channel Heights Housing Project, San Pedro
Date Made
1941-1942
Medium
Plywood (white pine), steel, plastic, fabric cushion
Dimensions
29 3/4 × 25 × 32 in.
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas S. Hines
Accession Number
M.91.142
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Curatorial Notes

The Federal Works Agency commissioned Richard Neutra to design the Channel Heights community near the Los Angeles harbor, conceived to provide wartime housing for shipyard workers. In order to maximize space in the cramped multifamily dwellings, Neutra included patios and large glass windows to open each unit to the outdoors and built in bulkier pieces of furniture. He designed this versatile chair employing inexpensive materials that could be used both indoors and out.



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

Selected 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.

  • 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.
Selected Exhibition History
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
Copyright
© Dion Neutra, Architect

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