Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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A page-turner that captures this leading Modernist in his own words. – Bennett Johnson, Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine
Viennese émigré Paul T. Frankl was a pioneer of early modern design in America, known for his “Skyscraper” furniture of the 1920s and work for Hollywood celebrities. His autobiography, thought for decades to be lost, is annotated by design scholar Christopher Long and accompanied by previously unpublished photographs and drawings. Hand-sewn with a linen cover, this book won the “Most Beautiful Book” design award in Austria.
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This autobiography is very much a profound piece of design-history and cultural history written in a remarkable, personal, and often subtle self-conscious style. Frankl was a real cosmopolitan of the truly old-Viennese brand, distilled in the electric mental air and at the marble-polished tables of the coffeehouses like the Café Museum, Café Herrenhof, and Café Central. He was already a prominent figure in the large exhibition “Visionäre und Vertriebene” (Visionaries and Exiles. The Austrian Impact on Modern US-Architecture) shown in 1994/95 in the Kunsthalle Wien at Karlsplatz.
– Otto Kapfinger, author of Architecture in Austria: A Survey of the 20th Century, and Architecture in Vienna
A gem of an historical source, Paul T. Frankl’s autobiography offers an unrivaled, page-turning insight into the rise of American modernism from an insider’s perspective. This unique book provides a wonderfully illustrated and nuanced account of one of America’s most significant twentieth-century designers.
– Alison J. Clarke, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Christopher Long’s exemplary biography of Paul T. Frankl restored the designer to his rightful place in the pantheon of pioneering American modernists. Now Frankl’s autobiography sheds even more light on the man, other key artists and designers, and most important, Austrian and American culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
– Wendy Kaplan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Instrumental for a niche and passionate audience to understand how the love of modern design, in its adolescence, became so widespread in the United States between 1920 and 1950.
– Casabella
He designed skyscraper cabinets and furnished the living rooms of Hollywood stars like Fred Astaire and Charlie Chaplin: Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958) defined American modernist design like no other – but in his native Austria, he remained largely unknown. [...] Frankl’s [book reveals] early Art Deco designs to his metal and rattan furniture, and later biomorphic shapes and mass productions. Thanks to Frankl’s daughter, Paulette, [there are] extensive photographic materials.
– Architectural Digest
Author Biography
Paul T. Frankl was a prolific and influential writer about design, the author of five books, including Form and Re-Form (1930) and Machine-Made Leisure (1932), and admired by his cohorts and his friend Frank Lloyd Wright. When Frankl died of cancer in 1958, he left his nearly complete autobiography. This never-before published work, written at the end of Frankl’s long career, is a vivid account of his early life, his rise in the profession, and his many travels in search ideas and forms. Accompanying Frankl’s text are eighty-five photographs and drawings, many of which have never previously been published. The book also includes an introduction by the noted design scholar Christopher Long and a remembrance written by his daughter Paulette Frankl.
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- Publisher DoppelHouse Press
- Publication Date October 2013
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780983254027
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 29.95 USD
- Pages252
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitlePaul T. Frankl | Autobiography
- Original Language AuthorsChristopher Long and Aurora McClain (eds)
- Copyright Year2013
- Dimensions8.9x5.9 inches
- Illustration85 Black and White illustrations
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