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Aug 22, 2014 08:29 GMT Svenskt Tenn celebrates the furniture designs of Josef Frank in new exhibition The colorful prints on textiles, wallpaper and carpets are for many people what first comes to mind when they hear the name Josef Frank, but above all he was a prominent furniture designer. This part of his life’s achievements is highlighted in the tribute exhibit now on display at Svenskt Tenn. Josef Frank was born in Austria in 1885, and came to Sweden with his Swedish wife Anna in 1933. The threat from the rising Nazi menace was becoming too real, so upon an invitation from Svenskt Tenn founder Estrid Ericson, he chose to leave his native country for good. In Sweden he started his collaboration with Estrid Ericson, that was so mutually fruitful and came to last until Josef Frank passed away in 1967. Svenskt Tenn is now about to launch eight pieces of furniture by Josef Frank (see Appendix), some of which have never been manufactured before. They are displayed in an exhibition composed according to the designer’s interior philosophy – a representative Frank statement is that it does not matter if you mix styles, colors and prints; things that you like will still merge into one harmonious unit. The exhibition is titled A tribute to the furniture designer Josef Frank. The art in the exhibition comes from the art consultancy company Moderna Samlare. The exhibition runs August 23 through September 27 at the Svenskt Tenn store in Stockholm, Sweden. Svenskt Tenn was founded in 1924 by designer and drawing teacher Estrid Ericson (1894-1981). In 1934, she began her lifelong collaboration with Josef Frank, already an internationally well-known architect, urban planner and designer, who had recently left Austria to take up residence in Sweden. Together, the two laid the foundations for the interior design philosophy that Svenskt Tenn has since come to represent, combining Estrid Ericson's artistic talent and entrepreneurial spirit with Josef Frank's inspired and timeless designs to form what was soon to become a highly successful concept. Svenskt Tenn is owned by the Kjell and Märta Beijer Foundation. Contacts Elin Lervik Press Contact Presschef/PR Manager Pressfrågor [email protected] +46760128800.

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The Other Modern Dwelling: Josef Frank and Haus & Garten Christopher Long School of Architecture University of Texas at Austin January 1999 Working Paper 98-2 ©1999 by the Center for Austrian Studies (CAS). Permission to reproduce must generally be obtained from CAS. Copying is permitted in accordance with the fair use guidelines of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. CAS permits the following additional educational uses without permission or payment of fees: academic libraries may place copies of CAS Working Papers on reserve (in photocopied or electronically retrievable form) for students enrolled in specific courses; teachers may reproduce or have reproduced multiple copies (in photocopied or electronic form) for students in their courses. Those wishing to reproduce Center for Austrian Studies Working Papers for any other purpose (general distribution, advertising or promo- tion, creating new collective works, resale, etc.) must obtain permission from the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, 314 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Avenue S., Minneapolis MN 55455. Tel: 612-624-9811; fax: 612-626-9004; e-mail: [email protected] A direct link to the CAS e-mail address cannot be included on this page, because it has been reproduced in Adobe Portable Documrnt Format (pdf) rather than html. We have done this because of the many high-quality images embedded in the paper. 1 In an article published in Der Architekt in 1921, the year when the economic and political fortunes of Austria finally began to revive, Josef Frank took time out to reflect on what the new realities of the postwar era would mean for the future of the arts and crafts in Vienna.
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