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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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