Frank Furedy Bedroom

Edgar Miller
c. 1946

The Furedy Bedroom is so named after the second owner of the Glasner Studio, Frank Furedy. It's not entirely clear how he originally came to be the owner at the Glasner Studio, starting in the late 1930s. Furedy was a scientist and inventor who became momentarily wealthy in the 1940s after he took his patent for an ultraviolet ray generator and created the Sun-Kraft Wireless Cold-Quartz Ultraviolet Ray Health Lamp, which was marketed quite successfully to the public as a treatment for a plethora of common ailments, from head colds to rheumatism, as well as promoting healthy skin and hair.

By the 1940s, and especially after the end of WWII in 1945, Furedy was flush with cash and ready to remodel. Tracking Edgar Miller down, he invited the artist back to the property to renovate the home in a major way, not only installing new artwork, such as the ceiling carvings in the Arts and Crafts Room, but also expanding and converting other rooms, such as this bedroom. There are no known photographs of this bedroom from Glasner's time in the home, but from some exterior photos that were taken in 1929, we know that its walls were expanded several feet into the small courtyard area on the other side of the east windows, and it's very likely the entire room, including its wall-to-wall built-in closets and drawers, were added for Furedy sometime in the 1940s.

The inventor and entrepreneur's luck ran out in in early 1947, when the FDA determined that his invention wasn't healthy at all, and may have actually been causing health problems. Recalling the devices country-wide, Furedy and his company went into bankruptcy. There is little known about what happened to Furedy after this time, but it’s likely that he was no longer a resident of the Studio by the end of the decade.