“In Gray & Blue” (Official Video) by my band Massage. Directed by Gabrielle Ferrer. From our forthcoming Lane Lines EP, out 12/10. RIYL:
Dining chair by #RMSchindler. Originally designed in the mid-1930s for the Van Patten House and @the_walker_house, this example was produced slightly later for the Bigelman remodel. Clearly a favorite design of Schindler’s — he rarely used the same chair twice, let alone three times. Also worth noting: the Bigelman chairs were made for Schindler by master woodworker Manuel Sandoval, a prized apprentice of #FrankLloydWright who executed the elaborate casework and furniture for Wright’s Kauffman office in Pittsburgh and V.C. Morris Gift Shop in San Francisco and went on to build furniture for #AlvinLustig in the late 1940s. Seen here pre-restoration, this chair has been cleaned up and is currently on display at @ripvanmodern’s brilliant show “Inside the Walls” at @friedman_benda in New York. I wish I could have afforded to bring these chairs “home,” so to speak — the third photo shows them in situ at the Walker House — but I’m glad to see they ended up in such good hands. And I’ll keep dreaming about a proper reunion. Maybe someday 🤞🏼
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Translucent House by #RMSchindler (1926-7) — a remarkably innovative design for Aline Barnsdall, who also commissioned #FrankLloydWright’s Hollyhock House but abandoned it shortly after construction was completed. With its partially translucent roof and Palos Verdes views, this would have been her new place — and it likely would have changed the arc of Schindler’s career. But it was never built, even though Schindler finished all the requisite plans. No one knows why.
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Roughing it at #FrankLloydWright’s Ocatilla desert camp (1929). Ocatilla’s spread of temporary redwood and canvas “tents” was designed by Wright in a day and constructed by his apprentices in six weeks. “And you will soon see them like a group of giant butterflies with scarlet wing spots,” Wright wrote of his slope-roofed structures, “conforming gracefully to the crown of outcropping of black splintered rock gently uprising from the desert floor.” Wright and his entourage endured five months in the desert just outside of Phoenix, designing the textile-block San Marcos hotel for local magnate A.J. Chandler. In May, unable to stand the heat, rattlesnakes, tarantulas and scorpions, they moved out; in June the camp burned down. The stock market crashed in October and the hotel was never built. Whatever remained of Ocatilla soon disappeared back into the desert.
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