The man who made minimalism sexy before it was a word—then vanished.
Jean-Michel Frank designed style-defining interiors in the 1920s with the timeless ideal of simplicity. He worked in Paris with artists like Giacometti and Dali, and designed interiors for millionaires like Nelson Rockefeller and Templeton Crocker. The documentary tells of an amazing but tragic life of the innovative interior designer.
Production
Lush archival footage of lost Parisian apartments
Direction
Spitzer treats furniture like emotional crime scenes
Costume
The clothes! Everyone dressed like they knew their legacy
Director
Thierry Spitzer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frank's signature shagreen and straw marquetry techniques were so labor-intensive that each piece took months; he once told a client that waiting was part of the design.
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