Johnson Furniture Company brochure showcasing the mid-century designs of Austrian/American architect, designer, and author Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958). Born in Vienna and educated in Austria and Germany, Frankl emigrated to the United States in the 1910’s, becoming one of America’s most important and influential modernist designers and thinkers, known for his paradigm-shifting Skyscraper furniture of the late 1920’s and for a series of books including New Dimensions (1928) and Form and Re-Form (1930). Frankl’s early postwar designs for Johnson Furniture, especially the now-iconic—and highly prized—cork-top biomorphic and Asian-inflected coffee tables, extended his success and his legacy into the mid-century. The present item includes selections from the Debonaire dining room and bedroom lines, the Ambassador bedroom group, the Tambour dining room group, and the aforementioned cork-top coffee tables, dining tables, and side tables. Along with room-setting photographs, the brochure includes curatorial information such as model number, materials, and measurements. 4to (9” x 12”), pictorial wrappers, 14 pages, b/w images. Light bumping and rubbing to edge-chipped wrappers. Creasing to top right corner of front wrapper.
Johnson Furniture Company brochure showcasing the mid-century designs of Austrian/American architect, designer, and author Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958). Born in Vienna and educated in Austria and Germany, Frankl emigrated to the United States in the 1910’s, becoming one of America’s most important and influential modernist designers and thinkers, known for his paradigm-shifting Skyscraper furniture of the late 1920’s and for a series of books including New Dimensions (1928) and Form and Re-Form (1930). Frankl’s early postwar designs for Johnson Furniture, especially the now-iconic—and highly prized—cork-top biomorphic and Asian-inflected coffee tables, extended his success and his legacy into the mid-century. The present item includes selections from the Debonaire dining room and bedroom lines, the Ambassador bedroom group, the Tambour dining room group, and the aforementioned cork-top coffee tables, dining tables, and side tables. Along with room-setting photographs, the brochure includes curatorial information such as model number, materials, and measurements. 4to (9” x 12”), pictorial wrappers, 14 pages, b/w images. Light bumping and rubbing to edge-chipped wrappers. Creasing to top right corner of front wrapper.
