FORM AND RE-FORM:
A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF MODERN INTERIORS

Paul T. Frankl

5.75 x 8.75 hardcover book with 203 pages and 109 black and white plates. A high point of American Moderne in both form and content -- beautifully designed and printed, FORM AND RE-FORM stands alone as an object defining the spirit of the age. Highly recommended.

"Quite simply, one of the finest printed artifacts of the American Moderne Movement. FORM AND RE-FORM is remarkable for the lucidity and perceptiveness of its text and illustration.

"Frankl integrates the arts, showing architecture, photography, and all aspects of the decorative arts; he credits Frank Lloyd Wright with being the first modern American architect; he emphasizes the important contributions of European immigrants; he talks about new materials and their significance to progressive aesthetics; and he promotes American work in general.

"Carrying his message even to the design of the printed page, Frankl emphasizes the importance of the unity and totality of the modern movement." [Wilson, Pilgrim, Tashjian: THE MACHINE AGE IN AMERICA 1918-1941. New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 285]

Contents

• Awakening
• Protagonists
• Style vs. "Styles"
• System
• Form and Function
• Horizontalism
• Creative Decoration
• Background
• Furniture
• Chairs
• Color and Design
• Weaving
• Old and New
• Wood
• Metal
• Glass
• Weaving
• Materia Nova
• Business
• Future
• Bibliography

Architects, designers and artists include Paul T. Frankl, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Kiesler, Henry Varnum Poor, Kem Weber, Gaston Lachaise, Lucie Holt Leson, Winold Reiss, Ilonka Karasz, Josef Hoffmann, Anton Bruehl, Walker and Gillette, J. E. R. Carpenter, Pola and Wolfgang Hoffmann, Djo-Bourgeois, Adnet, Saddler, Herbert Lippmann, Jacques Darcy, Georges Champion, M. W. Barney, Joseph Urban, Andre Lavezzari, Chareau, Lescaze, Donald Deskey, Eugene Schoen, G. Rohde, Raoul Dufy, Ralph Steiner, Edward Steichen, Ruth Reeves, Paul Rodier, Philippe Petit, Walter Von Nessen, Hunt Diederich, Raymond Hood, Vahan Hagopian, Michel Roux-Spitz, Alexander Archipenko, Richard J. Neutra, George J. Adams and Eric Bagge.

"To be modern is to be consistent, it is to bring out an artistic harmony in our lives and necessary environments, a harmony between our civilization and our individual art impulses. Our own art is a creation that expresses ourselves and our time. It is an expression that is alive and while it acknowledges its debt to the area of the past, it has no part in them." -- Paul T. Frankl

Paul T. Frankl (1887 -1958) was born in Austria and trained as an architect in Vienna and Berlin. Frankl emigrated to the United States in 1914. He opened a gallery/showroom on Madison Avenue in 1924, and developed his "Skyscraper" style of furniture design as early as 1925. A major influence in modern decorative arts, he wrote the books New Dimension in 1928 and Form and Reform in 1930. He helped establish the American Designers Gallery and the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen.

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