- Title
- Dresser with mirror from the Milton and Ruth Shep commission, Silver Lake
- Date Made
- circa 1934-1938
- Medium
- Gumwood, mirror glass
- Dimensions
- 70 1/2 × 105 × 26 3/8 in.
- Accession Number
- AC1995.81.19.1-.16
- Collecting Area
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Curatorial 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. 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)
- Selected Bibliography
- 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.
- 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". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
