Kaj Franck: Muotoilija=Formgivare=Designer

Monograph on pioneering modernist designer Kaj Franck, based on an exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts in Helsinki and published in 1993 by Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio. 311 pages, hardcover with pictorial boards, with text in Finnish, Swedish, and English. Prefatory remarks by Jarno Peltonen and Stuart Wrede; essays by Ulf Hard af Serstad, Leena Maunula, Liisa Rasanen, Markku Kosonen, Severi Parko, Antero Salminen, and Roger Connah. Fully illustrated in color and monochrome. Franck, the long-term artistic director at both Arabia and Nuutajarvi, is considered the “conscience of Finnish design” for his blend of formal integrity and emotional expressiveness. This book showcases his work in ceramics and glass while also highlighting his textile, flatware, and exhibition design, and his teaching. Important early catalogue raisonne of this master’s work. Slight lean to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.