Writer Susan Orlean Restores a Schindler Classic in Los Angeles

When writer Susan Orlean was posting pictures of her new home on Facebook earlier this year, she received rapturous replies of the "Gorgeous!" and "When can I come visit?" variety. Under an image of her bedroom, showing a rough stone-and-cement fireplace, a trapezoidal window, slanted walls, and a tongue-and-groove ceiling, one friend wrote, "It looks like high modernist meets Fred Flintstone." Another friend asked, "Is that a Schindler?"