Textile Vegetable Tree
Anakreon
With intricate figures—birds, flowers and plants—set against a backdrop of floating, cloud-like fields of colour on either a black or white ground, Josef Frank created Anakreon: a pattern rich in depth, life and movement.
Inspired by a Greek fresco
It all began with a blue bird. Estrid Ericson had fallen in love with a 3,500-year-old fresco from the Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete, depicting a bird known as L’oiseau bleu.
A sofa upholstered in black Anakreon fabric.
Printing the Anakreon fabric
Josef Frank’s Anakreon pattern is meticulously crafted using the screen printing technique— an intricate method that demands precision and artisanal skill.
Josef Frank
Austrian designer and architect Josef Frank has had an enormous impact on the history of Swedish design. Despite being nearly 50 years old when emigrating to Sweden, he is now considered one of the country’s most important designers of all time.
