A Space Where the Soul Could Go to Rest

Emma Garman | Laphams Quarterly | 22nd June 2020

After WW1 what mattered to chic Parisiens was “being modern”. It was the perfect milieu for Frank. Appalled by cluttered, bombastic furniture, he helped pioneer a minimalist aesthetic in interior design. Individual pieces of his furniture could be “severely modern”, yet as elements of a room design, they contributed to his signature look – “classical curves and symmetry, a becalmed air, and a sense of past and future seamlessly merging.”