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Florence Knoll Coffee Table 23" x 23"

Florence Knoll 1954

The Florence Knoll Coffee table, designed to furnish the new interiors of postwar America, is a scaled-down translation of the lines, gestures and materials of modern architecture. Consistent with all of her designs, the table has a spare, geometric presence that reflects the objective perfectionism and rational design approach Florence Knoll learned from her mentor, Mies van der Rohe.

Details

Construction and Details
  • Tabletops in glass, wood, coated and natural marble, and natural granite in a wide range of colors and finishes
  • Frame is welded square steel tube with polished or satin chrome finish
  • KnollStudio logo and Florence Knoll’s signature are stamped into the frame
Sustainable Design and Environmental Certification
  • Florence Knoll Coffee Table - 23 x 23 is certified Clean Air GOLD

 

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Finishes

  • color Arabescato
  • color Calacatta
  • color Carrara
  • color Grey
  • color Grigio Marquina
  • color Espresso Marble
  • color Verdi Alpi
  • color Nero Marquina
  • color Arabescato
  • color Calacatta
  • color Carrara
  • color Grey
  • color Grigio Marquina
  • color Espresso Marble
  • color Verdi Alpi
  • color Nero Marquina
  • color Carrara
  • color Black Andes Granite
  • color Clear Glass
  • color Light Oak Veneer
  • color Light Walnut
  • color Reff Dark Cherry
  • color Ebonized Walnut Veneer
  • color Chrome, Polished
  • color Chrome, Satin

Dimensions

As head of the Knoll Planning unit, Florence Knoll always approached furniture design with the larger space in mind. Most important to her was how a piece fit into the greater design — the room, the floor, the building. Every element of a Knoll-planned space supported the overall design and complemented the existing architecture.

Never one to compromise, Florence would often design furniture when she, “needed the piece of furniture for a job and it wasn’t there.” And while she never regarded herself as a furniture designer, her quest for harmony of space and consistency of design led her to design several of Knoll’s most iconic pieces of furniture—all simple, none plain.

As skyscrapers rose up across America during the post-war boom, Florence Knoll saw it as her job to translate the vocabulary and rationale of the modern exterior to the interior space of the corporate office. Thus, unlike Saarinen and Bertoia, her designs were architectural in foundation, not sculptural. She scaled down the rhythm and details of modern architecture while humanizing them through color and texture. Her occasional table collection, designed in 1954 to complement her eponymous lounge collection, is a perfect example of her restrained, geometric approach to furniture, clearly derived from her favorite mentor, Mies van der Rohe.
 

 

 

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