Knoll
Knoll is recognized internationally for creating workplace and residential furnishings that inspire, evolve and endure. Knoll’s commitment to innovation and modern design has yielded a comprehensive portfolio of office systems, seating, files and storage, tables and desks, wood case goods, textiles and accessories.A Commitment to Modern Design
Since the company's founding in 1938, design integrity has been the guiding principle as they offer insight into the way business is changing and into what is possible—now and for the future.
Knoll has been recognized as a design leader worldwide, and their products are exhibited in major art museums, with more than 40 pieces in the permanent Design Collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Avant-Scène is an authorized distributer of Knoll Space residential — featuring furniture by Harry Bertoia, Frank Gehry, Maya Lin, Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen, manufactured to the designers' exacting standards.
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Knoll / Bird chair
Harry Bertoia’s 1950 experiment with bending metal rods into practical art produced a revered collection of seating, including the unique Bird chair and ottoman. Innovative, comfortable and strikingly handsome, the chair’s delicate appearance bel...
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Knoll / Platner low table
Designed by Warren Platner in the 1960s the Platner coffee and side tables have a unique harmonious form that is created by welding curved vertical steel wire rods to circular frames. This produces a moiré effect and captures the decorative, gentle,...
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Knoll / X3
Marco Maran achieves sculptural transparency in X3, an imaginative collection suited to both home and public spaces. Pioneering technology and materials, X3 is constructed of clear polycarbonate with a Desmopan® lattice and uses a complex molding te...
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Knoll / Tulip Chair
Designed in 1956 by Finnish-born Eero Saarineen, the Tulip chair has become a classic of modern contemporary design. With the single-legged design of the chair, Saarinen realized his ideal of formal unity. Winner of the 1969 Museum of Modern Art Awar...
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Knoll / Bertoia side chair
Harry Bertoia's experiment with bending metal rods into practical art produced a revered collection of seating, including this side chair. Innovative, comfortable and strikingly handsome, the chair's delicate filigree appearance belies its strength a...
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Knoll / Womb chair
Florence Knoll had put forth the challenge of creating “a chair she could curl up in.” The Finnish-born architect and interior designer, Eero Saarinen, responded with the 1948 Womb chair, part of his breakthrough seating collection. With its stee...
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Knoll / Saarinen tables
In his pedestal collection, which includes a dining, coffee and side table, Saarinen realized his ideal of formal unity. These majestically effortless, one-legged molded fibreglass chairs and tables have since become symbols of mid-century modern des...
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Knoll / Barcelona couch
Created by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for his 1929 German Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Barcelona, the collection’s pure composition came to epitomize Modern architecture. From the handbuffed frame to the individual leather squares care...
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Knoll / Platner dining table
In the 1960s, Warren Platner transformed steel wire into a sculptural furniture collection, thus creating a design icon of the modern era. The furniture’s unique, harmonious forms are created by welding curved vertical steel wire rods to circular f...
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Knoll / Pollock
The Pollock chair by Knoll continues to maintain its role as the quintessential executive chair with its timeless contemporary elegance. Offered in a variety of luxurious fabrics, leathers and finishes, the versatile and extremely comfortable chair f...
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Knoll / Chadwick
From its streamlined form to its smart engineering, Chadwick is the office chair refined — and redefined. Its Active Suspension™ technology couples a unique synchronized recline with a proprietary elastomeric fabric that together anticipate and r...
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Knoll / Life
The graceful curves, slim silhouette and smooth, responsive movement of the Life chair set the standard for sophisticated design and effortless ergonomics. The Life chair was developed to be beautiful, comfortable and environmental, making it durable...
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Knoll / Albini desk
Franco Albini's 1958 floating pedestal desk combines glass chrome-plated steel and painted wood into a piece of striking clarity and balance. The desk's design demonstrates Albini's commitment to rigorous craftsmanship and elegance built on a minimal...
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Knoll / Cini Boeri Lounge Collection
The Cini Boeri Collection is a modern series of furniture for the workplace and the home that combines traditional upholstery with a sleek and modern European design aesthetic. Emphasizing generous proportions, multiple sitting zones and ease of move...
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Knoll / Generation
Generation by Knoll offers a new standard of comfort and unrestrained movement, supporting the range of postures and work styles typical of today's workplace. Designed by Formway Design, Generation takes the idea of elastic design - where a product r...
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Knoll / Saarinen low tables
In his purist approach to architecture and interior design, Eero Saarinen sought the essential idea and reduced it to the most effective structural solution within an overall unity of design. In his pedestal collection, which includes a dining, coffe...
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Knoll / Flat Bar Brno chair
Conceived by Mies van der Rohe in 1930 for the now legendary Tugendhat house in Brno, Czech Republic, this modern classic’s form reflects the spareness of Mies’s designs for the house and its interiors. An icon of 20th-century design, it is celeb...
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Knoll / Laccio tables
Like his Wassily chair, Marcel Breuer’s Laccio tables stand as paradigms of 20th-century design. Breuer’s innovative use of polished metal and impeccable lines in space are extended in his visually and physically light table series. The Laccio ta...
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Knoll / Barcelona chair
Created by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for his 1929 German Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Barcelona, the Barcelona Collection’s pure composition came to epitomize Modern architecture. From the hand-buffed stainless or chrome frame to the ...
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Knoll / Risom chair
Constructed of simple birch wood frames and discarded parachute webbing because of wartime material restrictions, the Collection exhibits Risom’s taste for well-crafted Scandinavian Modernism with streamlined curves and angles. Risom initially desc...
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Knoll / Risom lounge chair
Constructed of simple birch wood frames and discarded parachute webbing because of wartime material restrictions, the Collection exhibits Risom’s taste for well-crafted Scandinavian Modernism with streamlined curves and angles. Risom initially desc...
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Knoll / Cyclone table
Conceived in 1953 as a rocking stool made of metal wire and wood, Noguchi’s playful object was manufactured the following year in varying sizes, and later evolved into a table that became a companion piece to the Bertoia wire children’s chair. At...