Florence Knoll Dining Tables - Knoll

History of Florence Knoll dining tables :

As head of the Knoll Planning Unit, Florence Knoll always approached furniture design with the largest space in mind. The most important thing to her was how a piece fit into the greater whole: the room, the floor, the building. Each element of a space planned by Knoll supported the overall design and complemented the existing architecture.

Never committed, Florence often designed furniture when she "needed the furniture for a job and it wasn't there." And although she never considered herself a furniture designer, her search for harmony of space and consistency of design led her to design several of Knoll's most iconic pieces, all simple, none simple.

As skyscrapers were erected across the United States during the postwar boom, Florence Knoll saw it as her job to translate the vocabulary and logic of the modern exterior into the interior space of the corporate office. Therefore, unlike Saarinen and Bertoia, his designs were architectural, not sculptural. He reduced the pace and detail of modern architecture while humanizing them through color and texture.

Among these were a series of End Tables that, in their slim frames, extended the aesthetics of modernism to every corner of the office. To celebrate the designer's 100th birthday, Knoll introduced new products to the Florence Knoll collection, including a line of dining tables and a mini desk, which echo the successful forms of her previous designs and bring Shu's architectural sensibility from the corporate office to the home. .