An advertisement for Bird’s Custard that is now in the V&A’s print collection shows a young boy in a parlour with a grin on his face that at once suggests pleasure and a sense of wrongdoing.
A family of collectors who during the late 1940s and a bit into the 1950s made many orders, often specially commissioned, at Firma Svenskt Tenn. Thence by descent to the current owner. a floor lamp ...
Vogue asked a few of these fashion notables—from Inez van Lamsweerde to Margherita Missoni—to wax poetic on the cult Swedish interiors brand.
‘Renowned designers like Arne Jacobsen from Denmark and Josef Frank from Sweden ushered in what is often referred to as the golden age of Scandinavian design. They drew inspiration from constructivism ...
Few incarnations though are as closely tied to the idea of peace than the ‘Knot of Friendship’ ( or ‘Vänskapsknute’) candelabra by Josef Frank ... at Stockholm Design Week earlier ...
Charlotte Perriand is well-known for her contribution to the world of furniture, but which other women designers have spent ...
We have come north with Romanenko into the high Russian Arctic, to an archipelago known as Franz Josef Land, and although it’s not our primary purpose, that question underlies much of what we’ ...
Architecture and interior design studio Tomèf is at the helm of the project ... The colourful theme continues into the CEO’s office, which juxtaposes Josef Frank fabrics with art deco cabinetry and an ...
Tong Yang-Tze is reviving an ancient but disappearing practice and making it contemporary — writ large. By Zachary Small and An Rong Xu The Jewish Museum pairs the Texas artist with a 20th ...
The student will create a two-dimensional design that uses two aspects of Hans ... as well as modern masters like Frank Stella, who never studied with Hofmann, yet credits him as a major influence.
Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, ...
Born in Berlin in 1931, Auerbach came to England in 1939 as one of six children sponsored by the writer Iris Origo. Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the ...