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FLORENCE KNOLL PARALLEL BAR LOUNGE CHAIR FOR KNOLL ASSOCIATES (d. 1955)

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FLORENCE KNOLL PARALLEL BAR LOUNGE CHAIR FOR KNOLL ASSOCIATES (d. 1955)A Parallel Bar armchair in its original red Knoll fabric. Designed by Florence Knoll in 1955, the Parallel Bar System of furniture included both seating and surfaces. Conceived initially for corporate offices, it soon found its way into modern residential interiors. Valued for clean, tailored lines and superior construction, furniture designed by Florence Knoll is sought out by collectors and design enthusiasts alike. The Parallel Bar System remained

A Parallel Bar armchair in its original red Knoll fabric. Designed by Florence Knoll in 1955, the Parallel Bar System of furniture included both seating and surfaces. Conceived initially for corporate offices, it soon found its way into modern residential interiors. Valued for clean, tailored lines and superior construction, furniture designed by Florence Knoll is sought out by collectors and design enthusiasts alike. The Parallel Bar System remained in continuous production until 1973.

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FLORENCE KNOLL BASSETT (1917–2019, née Schust) was an American architect, designer, and entrepreneur. She was born in 1917 in Saginaw, Michigan. Orphaned as a child, she was educated at the Kingswood School for girls, one of the Cranbrook Schools cofounded by philanthropists George and Ellen Booth along with Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. The Saarinens all but adopted Knoll; she summered with the family in Finland and befriended son Eero. Saarinen encouraged Knoll to enroll at Cranbrook's Academy of Art, where she focused on architecture until 1939, with intervals of study at Columbia and the Architectural Association in London. In 1940, she was placed under the tutelage of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Armour Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) and also apprenticed for architects Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius—all three of whom were pillars of the Bauhaus school. Van der Rohe would remain a lifelong mentor. The next year, she moved to NYC and worked for the architectural firm of Harrison & Abramovitz, through whom she met furniture manufacturer and retailer Hans Knoll. He recruited her as head of the Knoll Planning Unit and, in 1946, they were married. That same year, the company changed its name to KNOLL ASSOCIATES.

Knoll was an enthusiastic and influential champion of well-known Bauhaus designers and architects, as well as newcomers such as Harry Bertoia. As a designer in her own right, she created tables, chairs, sofas, and storage solutions for KNOLL. She was also a major proponent of both ergonomics in interior space planning and the thorough integration of furniture with architecture. She was instrumental in selling the American public on modernist design and had a talent for persuading business executives to hire her firm to transform their offices. Her marketing experiences led her to coin the company’s motto: “Good design is good business.”

In 1951, the company was renamed Knoll International, and it expanded its business overseas. Upon her husband's death in 1955, Knoll took over as president. Three years later, she married banker Henry Hood Bassett. Knoll Bassett served as Director of Design at KNOLL until her retirement in 1965. She was honored with a National Medal of Arts in 2002. She donated her design archive to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., in 2004. Knoll died in 2019 at the age of 101.


KNOLL was founded eponymously in 1938 in a small space on East 72nd Street in New York City as the Hans G. Knoll Furniture Company. Hans Knoll was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1914, into the successful furniture-making family behind Walter Knoll & Co. Early 20th-century Germany was a nexus of modernist design theory, which held that design should be rooted in the principles of rationality, functionalism, and mass production. It was notably expressed in the products and practices of the Deutscher Werkbund association of artists and industrialists and the influential Bauhaus school. This milieu had a lasting influence on Knoll, inspiring him to produce furniture for the new age. In 1937, after a stint in London, he moved to the US, bringing the modernist vision with him.

Launched as an import business, the Hans Knoll Furniture Company soon pivoted to manufacturing. Its first plant was opened in a former dance hall in East Greenville, Pennsylvania, in 1941, the year that Danish designer Jens Risom was hired. Risom would help with the development of the first, original KNOLL designs. Also in 1941, Hans met Florence Schust on an interior design project and, recognizing her exceptional taste and eye, hired her to court business with architects and interior designers and, later, to provide in-house planning and interior design expertise for a corporate clientele. In 1946, they were married, and the company was renamed KNOLL ASSOCIATES.

That same year, the Knoll Planning Unit was established to solidify the company’s role in interior design. In 1951, KNOLL ASSOCIATES changed its name to Knoll International, and its German and French arms were launched, producing designs especially for European markets. In 1955, Hans died in a tragic car crash; his widow remained actively involved in the company until her 1965 retirement ten years later.

KNOLL’s signature pieces include Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair (1925), Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair (1929/1948), Harry Bertoia’s Diamond chair (1952), and Eero Saarinen’s Tulip armchair (1957); as well as Florence‘s own furniture collection, developed through the 1950s. The impressive KNOLL catalog includes a who’s who list of midcentury and contemporary design figures, including Jens Risom, Alexander Girard, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Schultz, Warren Platner, Charles Pollock, Andrew Morrison & Bruce Hannah, Vignelli Associates, Richard Sapper, Maya Lin, Frank Gehry, and Rem Koolhaas. Today KNOLL is especially focused on meeting the changing needs of the 21st-century workplace.

Hans Knoll was given the National Design Award for Corporate and Institutional Achievement by NYC's Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in 2011, in recognition of his legacy in American modern design and the emphasis of his work on the connection between design and quality of life. KNOLL pieces can be found in the permanent collections of institutions around the world; more than thirty have been acquired by New York’s MoMA.


I needed a piece of furniture. It was not there, so I designed it. – FLORENCE KNOLL BASSETT


DETAILS

Designer – FLORENCE KNOLL

Design Period/Year – 1955

Maker – KNOLL ASSOCIATES

Production Period/Year – 1950s

Origin – USA

Styles/Movements – MID-CENTURY MODERN

Materials – CHROME; FABRIC; STEEL

Colors – RED

Condition – Good vintage condition with some imperfections consistent with age and use. Some fading to the fabric and minor scuffs to the steel.

Dimensions – 31" W × 31" D × 30" H

Seat Dimensions – 24" W × 20" D × 16" H

Arm Height – 21"

Number of Seats – 1

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3 stars Thank you Netgalley and Briar Boleyn for the ARC! A camelot/king Arthur retelling with fae. I was hooked by the idea of this book immediately and was eager to jump into this world. • slow burn • enemies to lovers • who did this to you Morgan Pendragon watched her mother die by her father's hand when she was just eight years old, hiding under the bed. Morgan is believed to have the tainted blood of the fae in her veins and is cast aside so that her fathers illegitimate son, Arthur, can become the king. She's seen his cruel treatment of the fae firsthand, so when he sends her on a journey to find a fae weapon she seizes the opportunity to do more with her life. Along the way, she finds more than she could have imagined. I don't know a whole lot about King Arthur and Camelot but I had a lot of fun with this story! The plot has some similar tropes to popular romantasy books (From blood and ash) but there's enough originality here that it doesn't feel like I'm reading a copy. I liked how the fae were different in appearance than what is typical in most fantasy books I've read. In this book they have blue hair, violet skin and a wide range of other characteristics. I thought that the world building was easy to follow and I could easily immerse myself into this world. After reading the blurb I kept wondering when she was going to go on the journey to find Excalibur and it doesn't happen until around the 45% mark. The story is a bit slow at times but starts to pick up once they begin their journey to find Excalibur. The John Wick style Inn was a fun concept that I enjoyed reading about. There are a lot of similarities to this and FBAA and I would have liked to have it be a little more different, but I'm hoping book two will have the story turn into something of its own. Overall I enjoyed reading this story and I'm looking forward to reading book two especially after that ending.
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★★★★★ 3
3.5 stars, A little boring to say the least.
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