Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941) is a legendary figure in the decorative arts. His style, described as “poor luxury”, is just as paradoxical as his life spent between parties and solitude, and his faithful friendships with poets and artists who were decisive in the development of his aesthetic, but also with his clients, people of the world, fashion designers or intellectuals. Compelling them to get rid of their objects, their paintings and their carpets, Frank invented for them places conducive to meditation and dreaming, furniture of perfect simplicity, close to French neoclassicism stripped of its ornaments. Indifferent to the major debates of the first half of the 20
th century, Jean-Michel Frank sought neither to build a new world nor to cling to a nostalgic past. With elegance, he broke conventions, cleansing places of their history. Perhaps it is this mixture of lightness and rigor, of dream and poetry, this very current diversion of objects and materials which has led so many contemporary decorators and designers to call upon him.
“About his life, his work, everything is said, like never before, in this formidable book. »
Marie Palatine, Elle Décor, December 2006.
• 23 x 30.5 cm
• 400 pages
• 600 color and black and white illustrations
• ISBN: 978-2-9155-4204-2
Text in French only
