How designers re-created Anne Frank’s secret annex in striking detail
Dutch set designers Annemiek Swinkels and Willem Claassen spent months poring over Frank’s diaries and sourcing vintage furniture from the Netherlands for new NYC exhibit.
Anne Frank’s checkered diary is sitting on a desk. Trinkets are scattered on the shelf above it—some pencils, black-and-white photos, and a pair of metal scissors. Postcards and photos of 1920s celebrities like Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer are pasted on the yellowed wallpaper behind it.