Exhibitions: Josef Frank in London and Stockholm

Exhibitions: Josef Frank: Patterns–Furniture–Painting. London, Fashion and Textile Museum, 28th January – 7th May 2017.
Josef Frank: Against Design. Stockholm, ArkDes, 10th March – 27th August 2017.

Still today, Austrian designer Josef Frank is a household name all over Europe. The Fashion and Textile Museum in London is currently showing the exhibition Josef Frank, Patterns—Furniture—Paintings, and the Architecture and Design centre ArkDes in Stockholm will host Josef Frank – Against Design, which opens on 10th March after its highly successful presentation at the MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna last year.

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