Jean michel frank

Lot 142: Jean-Michel Frank. Elephant lounge chairs, pair. 2009, mahogany, sheepskin. 28 h × 36 w × 44 d in. result: $10,400. estimate: $10,000–15,000. Jean-Michel Frank originally designed this form for the Llao Llao Hotel in Buenos Aires.

jean michel frank attributed, by comte, bariloche, elephant chairs, 1939 - via claude home

Thrilled and very proud of our first cover story for AD France! “When Mathieu de Menonville acquired the apartment, it had lost much of its character. I suggested that we recreate its story," explains artist François Weiss. "We reintroduced the 17th-century wood paneling, modernized with the refinement of Jean-Michel Frank, imagining how this apartment would have been adapted in the 1940s by a family of travellers, and then by other generations that would have layered various styles”…

Jean-Michel Frank was a noted minimalist interior designer of the early twentieth century who came from a wealthy German-Jewish family that migrated to France in 1880. Born in Paris in 1895,Jean Michel Frank was noted for his designs involving interior...

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On the life and work of Jean-Michel Frank.

The French interior designer who championed minimal interiors through the mixed use of styles and cultures.

Jean-Michel Frank, France, circa 1930