FRANK, JOSEF - ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER (1885-1967). An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home

Author: Nina Stritzler-Levine, ed
Country: Connecticut
Language: English
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 309
Illustrations: 167 Color Illustrations. 138 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Size: 12”x 9”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 300068999
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio. Index. Cat. of exh.
Code: 2379

Price: $125.00

This is the first book in English to analyze the great achievements of Josef Frank, and to illuminate his alternative interpretation of the Modernist Movement. In addition to 9 chapters on Frank’s life and work, this book includes abundant illustrations of Frank’s architectural, furniture, gorgeous fabric designs, and a list of his architecture and design commissions. Some of the subjects covered are: Visions of the Modern Home, Frank’s Post World War I Vienna, Life in Exile, Theory and Polemic, “Steel is not a Raw Material, Steel is a Weltanschauung”, The Early Furniture Designs (1910-1933), Frank and the Swedish Modern Movement in Design, Frank and Gio Ponti: A View from Italy, Geometry in Disguise; A Modernist’s Vision of Textile Design, and Catalogue of the Exhibition.