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1922

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2017

2025

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Canvas Sling Chair, Kings Road House, 1922

This is a Canvas Sling Chair.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Friends of the Schindler House as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated 1922. Its medium is redwood and canvas.

Architect Rudolph Schindler came to California to work for Frank Lloyd Wright. This chair reflects the geometric footprint of his Kings Road House.

It is credited Friends of the Schindler House.

  • Chair
  • ash plywood, chromed steel, original leather.
  • Lent by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Decorative Arts Council Fund,....
  • 36.2016.2

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 59.2 × 69.2 × 68.7 cm (23 5/16 × 27 1/4 × 27 1/16 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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