Josef Frank, architect and designer
Subtitle: an alternative vision of the modern home
By: Leon Botstein ... [et al.] ; Nina Stritzler-Levine, editor.
Contributors: Botstein, Leon.; Stritzler-Levine, Nina.; Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts.
Publisher: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, by Yale University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Frank, Josef, 1885-1967 -- Exhibitions; Architecture, Domestic -- Exhibitions; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Interior decoration -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Throughout his extraordinary career in architecture and interior design, Austrian Josef Frank (1885-1967) charted an original and complex version of modernism that expressed a unique view of the modern home, the single-family house, and its furnishings. This book - the first in English to analyze and interpret Frank's many achievements - brings his contributions out of obscurity and reveals the full scope of his alternative interpretation of the modern movement.

In addition to ten essays on Frank's life and work, this book includes illustrations of 135 of Frank's architectural, furniture, and fabric designs, shown primarily in color. They trace his development as an architect and designer, from his early days in Vienna through his years in exile in Stockholm and New York. A selected list of his buildings, projects, and interior designs is found in the appendix.

The book accompanies an exhibition of the same title mounted in May 1996 at The Bard Graduate Center in New York City.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-299) and index.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title held May 9-July 21, 1996, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York.