Table and Credenza

Table and Credenza

ca. 1960

3799

Knoll, Florence Schust

American

furniture

Modern Movement

tables (support furniture)

credenzas (sideboards)

Images of a table (with marble top?) and credenza designed by Florence Knoll. "Knoll Bassett then studied for two years at the Architectural Association in London, spending summers with the Saarinens in Europe. She completed her formal training at the Illinois Institute of Technology where she studied under Mies van der Rohe, whom she credits with having "a profound effect on my design approach and the clarification of design ... After graduation Knoll Bassett worked for architecture firms in Boston and New York where she met Hans Knoll who was then in the process of establishing a furniture business. In 1943 she began working for him in her spare time as an interior space planner and designer. In 1946 the two were married and formed Knoll Associates, Inc.,"--Archives of American Art website.

marble (rock)

chrome steel

veneer

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