Knoll studio furniture is recognized internationally for creating workplace furnishings that inspire, evolve and endure Knoll studio furniture believe good design is good business. Since knoll's founding in 1938, they have been recognized as a design leader worldwide. Knoll studio furniture products are exhibited in major art museums worldwide, with more than 40 pieces in the permanent Design Collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Knoll studio furniture is manufactured at plants in Foligno and Graffignana, Italy. Knoll studio furniture are committed to high environmental standards is mandated by a comprehensive Environmental, Health & Safety Management Plan.
Knoll studio furniture celebrated June 2007 the 50th anniversary of Eero Saarinen's revolutionary series of single pedestal chairs and tables for Knoll studio furniture (known as the Tulip Collection)
In celebration of this 50 year anniversary, Knoll studio furniture is introducing a Platinum finish on all Tulip pieces and reintroducing classic Rosewood and Teak table tops.
The New York Times featured a platinum Tulip arm chair with blue Cato seat in the June 14th Home & Garden
section of the paper.
Commenting on the stylish new Knoll studio furniture Platinum finish, Marianne Rohrlich, Home Editor, wrote: Fashion trends are usually a year or two ahead of those in home furnishings, but this year is different: metallics are big…
A few of the long list of Knoll studio furniture designers:
Florence Knoll
While a student at the Kingswood School on the campus of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Florence Knoll Bassett (née Schust) became a protegée of Eero Saarinen. She studied architecture at Cranbrook, the Architectural Association in London and the Armour Institute (Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago). She worked briefly for Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Wallace K. Harrison. In 1946, she became a full business and design partner and married Hans Knoll, after which they formed Knoll Associates. She was at once a champion of world-class architects and designers and an exceptional architect in her own right. As a pioneer of the Knoll Planning Unit, she revolutionized interior space planning. Her belief in total design
- embracing architecture, manufacturing, interior design, textiles, graphics, advertising and presentation - and her application of design principles in solving space problems were radical departures from the standard practice in the 1950s, but were quickly adopted and remain widely used today. For her extraordinary contributions to architecture and design, Florence Knoll was accorded the National Endowment for the Arts' prestigious 2002 National Medal of Arts.
Knoll studio furniture designer, Eero Saarinen
The son of architect and Cranbrook Academy of Art director Eliel Saarinen and his wife, textile artist Loja, Eero Saarinen studied fine arts in Paris and architecture at Yale before working on furniture design with Norman Bel Geddes and practicing architecture with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He collaborated on several projects, including a plywood leg splint for the U.S. Army, with his friend, Cranbrook alumnus Charles Eames. He opened his own practice in Ann Arbor in 1950. Among the many buildings for which he is known are Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri and the TWA Terminal at Kennedy International Airport in New York. He was the recipient of numerous awards and the subject of many exhibitions.
Knoll studio furniture designer, Warren Platner
Warren Platner studied architecture at Cornell University. Following his work with legendary designers Raymond Loewy, Eero Saarinen and I. M. Pei, he immersed himself in the creation of steel wire furniture, devising the method and tooling to produce the lounge chair in the line as well. Notable among his residential and commercial projects are the Georg Jensen Design Center and the Windows on the World restaurant in the World Trade Center, both in New York City.
Knoll studio furniture designer, Marcel Breuer
Protégé of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer embodied many of the School's distinctive concepts and was and one of the School's most famous students. He returned shortly thereafter to teach carpentry from 1925 to 1928, and during this time designed his tubular-steel furniture collection: functional, simple and distinctly modern. His attention drifted towards architecture, and after practicing privately, he worked as a professor at Harvard's School of Design under Gropius. Breuer was also honored as the first architect to be the sole artist of an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Wassily chair was named after his Bauhaus roommate Wassily Kandinsky, the Cesca after his daughter Francesca.
Furniture
- Knoll studio furniture: Florence Knoll square table
- Knoll studio furniture; Florence Knoll two and three seat bench
- Knoll studio furniture; The Saarinen collection of round and oval tables
- Knoll studio furniture; The Saarinen of collection of Tulip chairs
- Knoll studio furniture; Saarinen conference chair
- Knoll studio furniture; Saarinen Womb and Ottoman stool
- Knoll studio furniture; The Platner collection of lounge seating
- Knoll studio furniture; The Platner collection of tables
- Knoll studio furniture; Barcelona chair
