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Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten Mikael Bergquist

Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten By Mikael Bergquist

Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten by Mikael Bergquist


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A documentation of Villa Carlsten on the Falsterbo peninsula in southern Sweden, designed by Austrian-born architect Josef Frank in 1926-27. Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, highlights the building's outstanding qualities and puts it in context with Frank's other work in architecture.

Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten Summary

Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten by Mikael Bergquist

Between 1924 and 1936, Austrian-born architect Josef Frank built five holiday homes on the Falsterbo Peninsula in southern Sweden. Conceived as summer houses for friends and relatives of Frank's Swedish wife, the Falsterbo Villas constitute a key part of Frank's architectural work and demonstrate the principles at the core of his housing designs. In 2016, Villa Carlsten, the smallest of the Falsterbo houses, underwent an extensive restoration. Published on the occasion of its completion, Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten is the first book to comprehensively document the building. As with all of Frank's housing designs, Villa Carlsten sees the architect paying special attention to the connection between interior and exterior, to the availability of daylight, and to inhabitants' movements through the building. A particular part of Villa Carlsten's charm is its scale, as everything is of slightly smaller dimensions than one would expect. Despite its intricate layout, however, Villa Carlsten is also one of Frank's most accessible homes, and the design is full of wit, combining comfort with modern refinement. Beautifully designed with seventy-five full-colour photographs by Mikael Olsson, who adeptly highlights the home's qualities and relationship with its surroundings, the book also includes an essay by Mikael Bergquist, who realised the renovation and places Villa Carlsten in context with the other Falsterbo Villas and Frank's broader work.

About Mikael Bergquist

Mikael Bergquist is an architect running his own architectural firm in Stockholm. He also writes on architecture and has published several books on Josef Frank before. He has been commissioned with the restoration of Frank's Villa Carlsten in Falsterbo, Sweden, in 2016-18.

Additional information

NPB9783038601364
9783038601364
3038601365
Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten by Mikael Bergquist
New
Hardback
Park Books
2019-05-29
64
N/A
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