
Design Dads – Knoll Family Album
Among Knoll’s roster of superstar architects, furniture designers and modern masters, is a set of fathers and sons and grandfathers.
Here is an excerpt of the “Knoll family album.”
Among Knoll’s roster of superstar architects, furniture designers and modern masters, is a set of fathers and sons and grandfathers.
Here is an excerpt of the “Knoll family album.”
An exhibition that tells the story of the Nakashima Straight Chair: first as a hand-made piece crafted exclusively at Nakashima’s workshop; next as part of the Knoll product line in the 1940s and 50s; and finally, as a modern production piece reintroduced to the Knoll catalogue in 2008.
George Nakashima and Knoll: The Making of an Object, at the Design Center at Philadelphia University 2009 – explored the history of a single chair designed by George Nakashima.