The Pre-Fab Furniture
of Klaus Grabe

This article serves to illustrate the growing popularity that modern interior furnishings were enjoying in the city of New York during the early post-war period. The modern furnishings in particular were the product of German modernist named Klaus Grabe. A refugee from Hitler's Germany, Grabe was a Bauhaus-educated designer who had first settled in Mexico with Josef Albers before moving to New York.