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Bookcase
Birch, lacquer

Designed by Paul Frankl (1886-1958),
Frankl Galleries, Inc., New York City, 1926

Purchase in honor of Darlene Schultz, President of the
Members Guild of the High Museum of Art 1991-1992,
with funds from the Decorative Arts Endowment, 1991.404

Paul Frankl, a German-born designer, worked
in New York City in the 1920s. The soaring
profile of Manhattan's stepped skyscrapers,
which were being built at the time, inspired
his line of case furniture.