House & Garden Magazine. July, 1934.
Roger Wolfe Kahn photo from the cover of Time Magazine, September 19, 1927. Image from travsd.wordpress.com
This reference library update looks at the apartment of 1920’s – 1930’s band leader, Roger Wolfe Kahn (1907 – 1962). Famed designer Paul T. Frankl (1886 – 1958) decorated Kahn’s apartment in his mid-1930’s streamline style. The July, 1934 issue of Home & Garden did a two page article on Frankl’s redesign of Kahn’s apartment. To read it and the three vintage advertisements, click on the magazine cover above.
Paul T. Frankl, circa 1935. Photograph from Getty Images.
So interesting! And I loved the bookcase cutout around the sofa (If I dare use such a plebian word for that edifice!). Loved the GE ad, too…imagine that chic crowd jamming into the kitchen to admire a device none of them would ever deign to use!