“The state in which we found the house was, in a word, bleak, so our mission was clear: save it, restore it, and give it a new life for a new century.” – Pamela Shamshiri on her decade-long restoration of Rudolph Schindler’s Lechner House

The 1948–49 Lechner House, designated Los Angeles Historic–Cultural Monument No. 1024, stands as one of Rudolph M. Schindler’s final and most celebrated residential masterpieces—a true architectural treasure that captures a defining voice of California modernism at the height of his powers. Hugging the contours of its rugged canyon site, the tree top house is seamlessly nestled into the rock, a sublime expression of Schindler’s late-career “space architecture,” where structure and landscape merge into a singular, visionary work of Mid-Century Modern design.