On Exhibit in Europe: Original Anni Albers Fabric from The Frank House
Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a trailblazing textile designer of the 20th century. A student and later a teacher at the Bauhaus in Germany, Albers emigrated to the United States and taught at the famous Black Mountain College. She was a close collaborator of Frank House architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer and designed a gorgeous, handwoven wall-covering textile for the Frank House’s master bedroom. A swatch of this original fabric was recently donated to the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation and is currently on display in the exhibition "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles". Albers developed original textile patterns using progressive woven techniques and became the first textile designer to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", a major exhibition of her distinguished work, premiered at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland, in November 2025 and will travel to the Belvedere in Vienna, Austria, in April 2026. More information on the exhibition can be found at https://www.albersfoundation.org/exhibitions/anni-albers-constructing-textiles On Exhibit in Europe: Original Anni Albers Fabric from The Frank House Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a trailblazing textile designer of the 20th century. A student and later a teacher at the Bauhaus in Germany, Albers emigrated to the United States and taught at the famous Black Mountain College. She was a close collaborator of Frank House architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer and designed a gorgeous, handwoven wall-covering textile for the Frank House’s master bedroom. A swatch of this original fabric was recently donated to the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation and is currently on display in the exhibition "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles".Albers developed original textile patterns using progressive woven techniques and became the first textile designer to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. "Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles", a major exhibition of her distinguished work, premiered at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland, in November 2025 and will travel to the Belvedere in Vienna, Austria, in April 2026.
Pink Sand Beach
450 million years ago, a beautiful pink stone formed under an ancient sea. Known as Kasota stone, it wraps the exterior of The Alan I W Frank House in warm, natural beauty. On a trip to Minnesota, where the original stone was quarried, Alan met with Howard J Vetter, chairman of the board of Vetter Stone Company, and grandson of the man who actually cut the original stone in 1939. Mr. Vetter personally selected a piece of stone to match a piece on the house that had weathered. He said that he was “honored to supply the stone” and autographed it as a donation to the preservation of the house.
Anni Albers Fabric
In November 2013, the chief curator and Anni Albers foundation gave a seminar on Annie Albers for graduate students at Yale School of Architecture. A highlight of the seminar was an image of a magnificent piece of fabric with a copper thread woven in it, from the master bedroom of the Frank House. Annie Albers is recognized as one of the most influential fabric designers of thee twentieth century. She began her studies at the Bauhause in 1922 with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. It was there she met her husband, Joseph Albers.