Fashions: Furniture

The Idea: "Furniture of the 4th Dimension." The Motive: To make small 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,...

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