Word: frankl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DIMENSIONS-Paul T. Frankl-Payson & Clarke...
From elaborate exhibits in museum and department store to window displays in cheap furniture shops, "modern decorative art" has been thrust at last upon the U. S. public. Justification is now undertaken by Paul Frankl, enthusiastic creator of skyscraper dressing tables, who traces origins in Austria, Germany, and, above all, Paris, where dressmakers felt the need of new backgrounds for their simple (but oh so intricate) knee-length frocks. In a spirit of cooperation, the new decorator therefore scraps everything old (the pyramids excepted), and matches modern life with "simple rhythmic combinations of masses," and sharp color contrasts, rather than...
...Author Frankl does not prove that "simplicity" does match modern life. Nor does he recognize that his "simplicity" is rather the affectation of simplicity-witness a creation entitled "lady's whimsical desk built like a puzzle...
...Furniture:" Hollow and affected is Fur niture Salesman Frankl's explanation and gloss for kitchenet apartment furniture. You, TIME, should have milked down his bloated phrases and said prosaically : "Salesman Frankl sells furniture-with-a-pinched-look. It is acceptable and esthetic because it fits appropriately those pinched crannies of costly New York apart ments." Mr. Frankl's initials made me laugh. His balderdash resembles that of that other P. T. - Barnum...
...flats efficient; to follow skyscraper architecture; to initiate black, grey, silver as in modern dress. The Story: "When we have cast aside the sedulous mimicking of modes of a bygone era, then and then only shall our decorative art be truly creative." So said last week famed Paul Theodore Frankl* of the Frankl Galleries, Manhattan. Paul Theodore Frankl has designed "architectural" or "skyscraper" bookcases & dressing tables that tower in tiers, armchairs that are at once squat & graceful, a "step table" for books, and a "narrow chest of drawers" (5 ft. high, 8 in. wide, 12 in. deep). This furniture...