Erik Benjamins

13 November 2024

  1. After-Dinner Walk
  2. Alex Reed’s Home Work
  3. Ben Sanders is Drawing at the Dinner Table
  4. Bookends & Good Hugging
  5. Bookshelves & Hard Optimism
  6. Bottega Louie
  7. Built In at the Neutra VDL House
  8. Building Block
  9. Butts of Florence
  10. Confessions of an Anonymous Recipe
  11. Crying Into the Breadbox
  12. Disintegrating Smeller
  13. Eric Payne
  14. Forgetting the Words
  15. Free Smells
  16. Happiness for Art21 Magazine
  17. Running of the Interns
  18. Schindler Centennial for Cereal Magazine
  19. Self-squaring and Double Acting
  20. Sitting Suite for Seed
  21. To Sit is to Time Travel
  22. The Spongiologist’s Mantra
  23. Use All Five
  24. Wood Fire Chicken for Lucky Peach
  25. Young Joon Kwak’s ‘The Cave’
  26. Show All

Schindler Centennial for Cereal Magazine 2022

A short essay commissioned by Cereal Magazine on the occasion of the MAK Center Schindler House’s 100th birthday (2022).

Shortly after completing my experimental audio tour for the Schindler House centennial, Cereal reached out to see if I'd like to write a piece about the renown landmark to early SoCal modernism. Accompanied by knock out photographs by Rich Stapleton, my piece takes an impressionistic route in exploring the feeling of moving through this dark, intimate space as a modern day visitor.

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