Browsing around this blog I found a great post about Josef Frank prints.I haven't heard of him before but after looking him up after, I probably should have. An architect, designer and artist, he spent most of his life in Stockholm, Sweden and was primarily working with public housing and housing estates. Contrary to most other architects during the interwar period, he favoured practicality and functionality over facade decor. In the later years he also designed furniture, furnishings, fabrics, wallpaper, carpets and wall art for which he is arguably more famous for.
The prints are now extremely hard to get hold of and if you are lucky enough to find one, you'd expect to pay a handsome amount for it (at least £150 per metre).
Every print I look at I fall in love with. So colourful and vibrant. I have a vision of a stark white bedroom, white soft furnishings with only hints of colour on piping and borders and then with a long, plump, Josef Frank cushion at the top of the bed hogging all the attention.
But of course, you don't need to splash out the get the look. There are hundreds of imitations on the high street.
Throw pillow, Ikea £19.99
Pair of curtains, Ikea £12.99
Tropical quilt, Urban Outfitters £100
Rug, Urban Outfitters £35
Throw, Urban Outfitters £45
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