Joseph Frank

Joseph Frank (Baden, 15 July 1885 – Stockholm, 8 January 1967) was an Austrian architect of Jewish origin.

Frank He worked with Oskar Strnad and was associated with the Vienna Circle. He initially dealt with residential construction at a time when Vienna was suffering from a crisis of lack of housing solutions, but the very minimalism of the style adopted at the time pushed him to found his own company in 1925 for which he began to experiment with less formally rigorous solutions applied, in addition to construction, also to the sector of furniture and fabric design.
In 1933 he moved to Sweden, where he worked for the design company Svenskt Tenn, where, under the guidance of the company's owner, Estrid Ericson, he produced numerous design objects. The collaboration continued even after Frank moved to New York, in order to escape the Nazi and anti-Semitic advance in Europe. There, Frank was also influenced by local museum collections: for example, the use of brightly colored botanical patterns in his fabric designs is thought to have originated, among other things, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of Indian tree-of-life motifs. After Germany's defeat, Frank returned to Sweden, where he continued to work for Svenskt Tenn until his death.

In 1965 he won the Austrian State Grand Prize for Architecture. His work inspired IKEA and H&M
His work inspired IKEA and H&M.
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