Jean-Michel Frank was a French interior designer known for minimalist interiors decorated with plain-lined but sumptuous furniture made of luxury materials, such as shagreen, mica, and intricate straw marquetry. He had an eye for exotic patterns, specifically in veneers, including snake and sharkskin. His work became widely known in the 1930s when select, higher classes demanded his furniture. He is known for being associated with the Art Deco movement.
This is Jean Michel Frank's Club Chair made from sheepskin. In 1924, Jean Rene Guerrand commissioned Frank to design upholstered furniture and chairs. Frank stripped away decoration and emphasized craft and simplicity. The Club Chair comes in a variety of colors and used as inspiration for designers today.
Otto Heinrich Frank was the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations. In the 1950s and 60s he established European charities in his daughter's name and founded the trust which preserved his family's wartime hiding place, the Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam.
Frank in 1961
Otto Frank inaugurating the Statue of Anne Frank, Amsterdam 1977.