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PHOTOGRAPHY: COURTESY KNOLL ARCHIVE (TOP TWO); COURTESY KNOLL (BOTTOM); VICTOR ORLEWICZ, COURTESY PEI COBB FREED PARTNERS (OPPOSITE, TOP); © DINKUM (OPPOSITE, MIDDLE); COURTESY PEI COBB FREED PARTNERS (OPPOSITE, BOTTOM)
Florence Knoll
A pioneer in modern furniture and textiles, designer and architect
Florence Knoll Bassett celebrates her 100th birthday on May 24.
Born Florence Schust in Saginaw, Michigan, she demonstrated
an early interest in architecture and studied under Eliel Saarinen
at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Steeped in the modernist
aesthetic, she continued her architecture studies under 20th-century
heavyweights, including brief work with Walter Gropius and
Marcel Breuer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She studied further
under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at what is now the Illinois Institute
of Technology in Chicago.
In 1941, Schust moved to New York, where she met Hans Knoll,
whom she married five years later. He had established his furniture
company on Manhattan's Madison Avenue, and together the couple
grew the business with key furnishings designed by Jens Risom,
Eero Saarinen, and Harry Bertoia. Knoll convinced her former mentor,
van der Rohe, to permit the company's production of his furnishings,
including the Barcelona Chair, en masse. Frequently designing
Florence Knoll Bassett (left)
furniture herself, Knoll modestly referred to her products as the "meat
designed the elegant, geometric
and potatoes" filler among the more standout pieces, yet her works
Florence Knoll Sofa (bottom)
remain just as revered and celebrated decades later.
in 1954, as well as coffee and
end tables for the Knoll furniture
After Hans's death in 1955, Knoll served as the company president
catalog in 1961 (below).
until 1960. She continued as director of design until she retired in 1965.
Additionally, Knoll designed a number of interiors, including the CBS
workplace in New York.
In reaction to the lack of suitable fabrics available on the
market at the time, Knoll founded KnollTextiles in 1947 to provide
complementary textiles for the company's furniture. "No one [else]
in the market is connected to a legendary design visionary like
Florence Knoll," says Dorothy Cosonas, KnollTextiles creative director.
"She changed not only the language of textiles but also the language
of design." -HAYLEY ARSENAULT
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Editorial
Industry News
Designer You Should Know: Pamela Abalu
Columnist: Why Your Firm Should Be More Social
Salone del Mobile and Euroluce
Product Focus: Color, Celebrated in Form
2017 Official Neocon Product Preview
MetLife
Morningstar
Jones Day
Stoel Rives
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass
Wiley
Designers Select: Workplace
Sources
Ad Index
Exhibition: Lee Broom displays a decade of designs on a carousel during Milan’s Design Week
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