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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Furniture | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Jews, driven from Europe, had taken England for their own. Baruch Frankl, "Jew of Jews," ordered his tenants to wear a fez with a tassel as Livery of the Manor. But Hogarth refused, and Hogarth's sister rejected Frankl's amorous advances. Things took place-Hogarth flogged Frankl; Hogarth was convicted, falsely, of murder; Hogarth was sent to Colmoor prison. Rebekah Frankl, beautiful, barbaric, with earrings as big as hoops, flung a red flower with a black heart of passion to Hogarth on his conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Super-Man* | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

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