VILLA CARLSTEN
Josef Frank, Falsterbo, Sweden, 1927
Model of living room at 1:10
“I am of the opinion that anyone who has the desire to rest his posterior on a rectangle is in the depth of his soul filled with totalitarian tendencies”
Josef Frank believed that the architect can offer nothing more than a skeleton or frame for a home. The belongings which fill out that frame he said are of two kinds: the ones which belong to the old world of the arts and crafts that are inherited: carpets, pictures and the like. The others belong to the new world of the machine: lamps, photographs, books and other ‘industrial’ products. He justified his relaxed aesthetic by explaining that these two types of belongings cannot be united into a single whole, because their mode of origin, and consequently, their expression is fundamentally different.
“The living room is never unfinished and never finished, it lives with the people who live in it.”
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