Svenskt Tenn’s classic cushions are loved all over the world; from Stockholm to New York and Shanghai. This linen cushion has the Zodiaken print.
In Josef Frank’s Zodiaken (the Zodiac) print, star constellations radiate on bright blue formations. In the middle are the Milky Way’s veiled craters. The zodiac signs are derived from ancient Babylon with Pisces, Aquarius, Scorpio, Libra, Sagittarius and Aries visible on top and the Milky Way, Leo, Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Gemini and Capricorn below. The print was designed in 1936.
Designer
Josef Frank/Svenskt Tenn
Svenskt Tenn developed this design using Josef Frank's print.
Josef Frank grew up in Vienna in an assimilated Jewish family and studied architecture at Konstgewerbeschule. In the 1920s he designed housing estates and large residential blocks built around common courtyards in a Vienna with severe housing shortages. In 1925 he started the Haus & Garten interior firm together with architect colleagues Oskar Wlach and Walther Sobotka. Svenskt Tenn hired Josef Frank in 1934 and just a few years later he and Estrid Ericson made their international breakthrough. Although he was already 50 when he left the burgeoning Nazism in Vienna for Sweden, Frank is considered one of Sweden’s most important designers. Read More