NEW DIMENSIONS
THE DECORATIVE ARTS OF TODAY IN WORDS AND PICTURES
Paul T. Frankl

Paul T. Frankl: NEW DIMENSIONS. THE DECORATIVE ARTS OF TODAY IN WORDS AND PICTURES. NYC: Brewer and Warren, 1928. Second printing. A very good hardcover book bound in full, decorated cloth in a very good dust jacket. The DJ is lightly worn and has chipping to both spine ends and the rear panel. The presence of a dust jacket makes this a truly rare, one-of-a-kind volume. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. This book is dedicated "to a great american architect and creative artist, Frank lloyd Wright."

9.25 x 12.25 hardcover book with 124 pages and 122 finely-printed b/w plates. Includes work by Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul T. Frankl, Fred French, Buchman and Kahn, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Andre Lurcat, J.J.P. Oud, Fritz Hoger, Erich Mendelsohn, Ilonka Karasz, Eugene Schoen, Lucian Bernhard, Winold Reiss, Etienne Kohlman, Paul Poiret, Louis Sognot, Marcel Guillemard, Joubert et Petit, Djo-Bourgeois, Jean Dunard, Louis Sognot, Georges Lamoussu, Adnet, E. Chassaaing, Raymond Nicholas, Gabriel Bouvier, Lalique, Rene Herbst, E. Fahrenkamp, Horvik, Carl Malmsten, C. L. Klotz, Bruno Paul, Beckerand Kutzner, Paul Griesser, Heinrich Tessenow, Karl Bertsch, K. Bertsch, Fritz Reichl, Jospeh Hillerbrand, H. Varnum Poor, Gaston Lachaise, Knut Anderson, Karl Trumpf, VallyWieselthier, Arthur Helbig, Max Lauger, Mauritius Pfeiffer, Madeline Sougez, A. M. Cassandre, Pierre Petit, Andre Laroche-Garrus, Paul Rodier, Winold Reiss, N. Strauss-Likarz, Anton Bruehl, Ralph Steiner, Robert Edmond Jones, and Lee Simonson.

From the book: "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."

"The modern spirit, which is at present revolutionizing all the arts about us, has broken through the last stronghold -- the home. What are the principles of these decorative arts that have revolutionized our lives? Mr. Frankl in his book classifies and analyzes them. He knows, through his teaching and his galleries, where the new artristic forces have succeeded and where they have failed. He sees, further, where they can in the future succeed. He writes out of his own experience and tells the story of modern decoration fully in the text and the pictures of this fascinating, even exciting, book."

"There are chapters on decorative fabrics and their use, modern furniture, modern lighting fixtures, the bath-dressing room, American city architecture modern art in business, etc." Contents:

  • foreword by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • list of illustrations
  • what is modern
  • retrospective and where we stand today
  • basic principles in modern decoration
  • decorative fabricsand their uses
  • modern furniture
  • modern lighting fixtures
  • the bath-dressing room
  • american city architecture
  • modern art in business
  • some practical considerations of art in business
  • influences

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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