Hawai (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)
1980 · Linen, plain weave; screen printed
209.8 × 132.6 cm (8 1/2 × 52 1/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Josef Frank
Austrian-Swedish, 1885
PrintmakingContemporary
Representation
None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
19
Works in Collection
26
Assets Indexed
3
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Modern Rooms of the Last Fifty Years
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946–1947
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Josef Frank was a Swedish architect and designer whose furniture, textiles, and interiors synthesized modernist principles with decorative sensibility, resisting the austerity of his contemporaries. Working across multiple decades and geographies, he developed a distinctive vocabulary that bridged functionalism and ornament through pattern, form, and material. His approach established an alternative modernism in which decoration and utility coexisted without compromise.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
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