Station Wagon Group
Designed by Paul Frankl, the Station Wagon Group was premiered in early 1950. In Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design, author Christopher Long notes, “With their contrasting woods, the designs were intended to evoke the new station wagon automobiles, which had similar wooden elements afixed to their exteriors. But the style was intended, too, as an ‘attitude’ and ‘a new way of life’; Frankl’s furniture was the latest thing for the well-heeled suburbanite.”