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Reference Library Update – The Apartment of Roger Wolfe Kahn, by Paul T. Frankl

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July 1934 House & Garden.

House & Garden Magazine. July, 1934.

 

Roger Wolfe Kahn in 1927.

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

Paul T. Frankl, circa 1935. Photograph from Getty Images.

 

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