Austrian by birth and trained as an architect in Vienna, Josef Frank (1885–1967) is firmly associated with mid-century Swedish Modern design and, in particular, the furniture and textiles he produced for Svenskt Tenn, a leading interiors firm based in Stockholm. Although he worked within a modernist tradition, Frank nonetheless rejected the austere severity of functionalism and proposed a more balanced and individualistic approach to the decoration of domestic spaces. His brilliantly colored, exuberantly patterned textile designs were instrumental in creating distinctive modernist interiors. This dynamic, large-scale geometric pattern with imbricated semi-circles, circles with wedges, diamonds, rectangles, and squares was created for Almedahls after a carpet also entitled Bows which Frank designed for Haus & Garten in 1929; the original carpet pattern is found in the Backhausen archives, Vienna.