
I think my respect for a piece of painted Schindler furniture is pretty well-documented at this point, but let’s be clear: this beat-to-hell 90-year-old plywood side table with flaking white paint that’s probably got enough lead in it to flip an entire congressional district Republican must be preserved at all costs.
Fortunately, the estimate of that cost does not seem high.
The table is from the Walker House (1935-56), which was the subject of an intense LA real estate fairy tale its ecstatic buyer wrote for Apartamento in 2017. But stripping the old paint off the built-ins, it seems like they prioritized their little kids’ neurological development over historic preservation, which, honestly, understandable, but which might imperil the return of this asymmetrical table to its home.

Oh, but look how it opens up! The table was the roughest of six lots of furniture the original owners’ heirs sold off in 2014, plus the archive, with not an identical finish among them. What if the paint’s from like the 70s?
17 July 2025, Lot 150: Rudolph Schindler Walker House Table, est. $2-3,000 [lamodern]