R.M. Schindler’s Lechner House in L.A. Lists for $6.5 Million

Austrian-born architect R.M. Schindler, one of the undisputed mavericks of the early to mid-twentieth century, spent a decade working for Frank Lloyd Wright before he landed in Los Angeles, where he merged the rigorous geometries of early European modernism with California’s relaxed lifestyle.

In the mid-1940s, Dr. Richard Lechner and his wife commissioned the innovative architect to build a home in a wooded glade in the foothills of L.A.’s Studio City. All but hidden behind…