A new journal by Svenskt Tenn celebrates Josef Frank's travels around the United States
Svenkst Tenn’s legacy may be synonymous with Swedish culture, but it might surprise many to know that Josef Frank, the Austrian designer and architect who shaped Svenkst Tenn’s aesthetic signature over three decades, actually spent a formative period of time in New York, not long after joining the company in the early 1930s.
Accompanied by essays from Sally Singer and Lynn Yaeger, as well as illustrations by Cecilia Carlstedt,sees some of Svenskt Tenn’s most recognizable designs placed in surreal settings. The Faragos shot the Liljevalchs sofa, one of the first pieces of furniture that Frank designed for Svenskt Tenn in 1934, against a barren landscape of stone and water, while his Manhattan print is depicted as an endless road, rolling across a series of hills.
During his time at the company, Frank produced more than 3,000 interior sketches and 250 textile prints, which have all been preserved in Svenskt Tenn’s archives in Stockholm. Some of the designs he created while living in New York in refuge because of the Second World War are amongst the company’s most well-known, such as Terrazzo, Hawai, California, Tulpaner, Vegetable Tree, and of course, Manhattan.
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