Forming part of the much celebrated Florence Knoll collection, the Lounge Chair is a piece with a rich sense of heritage, that forms the backbone to the wider Knoll collection. Carrying a sparse, geometric profile, which stands as an expression of the rational design approach that the designer was famed for.
Lavishly upholstered in Cato fabric in a range of distinctive colourways, the chair is finished with stamps of the KnollStudio logo and Florence Knoll’s signature on the base of each frame, guaranteeing authenticity.
While a student at the Kingswood School on the campus of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Florence Knoll Bassett (nee Schust) became a protege 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.
