
Vegetable Tree (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1944
- Dimensions
- 210.6 × 132.5 cm (83 × 52 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Josef Frank
Artist

Printmaking
Josef Frank was a Swedish architect and designer whose work spanned furniture, textiles, and interior design across the twentieth century. His approach synthesized modernist principles with decorative sensibility, resisting the austerity of contemporary design movements. Frank's patterns and forms, developed across multiple decades and geographies, established a distinctive vocabulary that bridged functionalism and ornament.
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Record
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- Josef Frank
- Year
- 1944
- Dimensions
- 210.6 × 132.5 cm (83 × 52 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1944-098068
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





