 KnollKnoll Group Inc. is a leading U.S. manufacturer of office furniture. Its products include chairs, wood casegoods, files and storage mechanisms, and full office systems. Knoll also produces textiles on contract and markets computer support accessories. The company was selling its products through showrooms, sales offices, and dealerships in about 500 U.S. locations. It also sells through independent dealers in Europe, the Pacific Rim, and Latin America.Knoll was founded in 1938 by Hans Knoll. Knoll, the son of a German furniture maker, was living in New York at the time. Hans, like his father, was a craftsman, but he believed that new woodworking and manufacturing technology being introduced at the time could be integrated with his skills. His primary goal was to produce furniture that was elegant and functional but also affordable. That design philosophy would be hugely successful for Knoll and would guide the company not only through the 1940s but even into the 1990s. Knoll found a willing local market for his furniture designs during the late 1930s and early 1940s.Knoll`s design philosophy was heavily influenced by the famous Bauhaus school of design that was becoming dominant at the time. The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by architectural renegade Walter Gropius, who merged an art academy and an arts-and-crafts school. He based the school on the canon that no distinction should be made between fine arts and practical crafts, including furniture. Furthermore, the school held that modern art and architecture must be responsive to the aesthetic and engineering needs of the industrial world. The Bauhaus style, or "International Style," adopted by Knoll and other progressive designers was distinguished by minimal ornamentation and an emphasis on simplistic beauty. Famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was running the school shortly before it was shut down by the Nazis in 1933. By that time, however, its principles were being adopted worldwide. In fact, many of the school`s faculty immigrated to the United States where they influenced designers such as Knoll. |
 Marcel Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer was born in Pécs, Hungary in 1902, and became one of the greatest architects and furniture designers of the 20th century.
Breuer used new technologies and new materials in order to develop his "International Style" of work.
Breuer first studied art in Vienna, but was unhappy with the institution and found work at an architecture office. From 1920 to 1928 he was a student and teacher at Germany’s Bauhaus, a school of design where modern principles, technologies and the application of new materials were encouraged in both the industrial and fine arts.
After completing his studies at the Bauhaus, Breuer traveled to Paris, where he worked in an architect’s office. After a year he was appointed as head of the carpentry workshop at the Bauhaus. Breuer was given the title of "young master". |
 (1) Vintage Knoll Marcel Breuer Leather Wassily Chair
Lounge Chair
Wassily Chair No.B3 (1925-1926)
1920`s Design
~This is the most copied of all Breuer`s chairs. The frame was originally made from bent, nickelled, tubular steel. It later became chrome plated. The seat and the back are made from canvas , fabric or leather. It was designed for Kandinsky`s quarters at the Dessau Bauhaus. It was at the time quite revolutionary in its use of tubular steel. It was inspired by an Adler bike~
Features
Black leather seat back and side panels
Round steel tube with black finish |
 30.5" Length x 25.5" Depth x 28" Height
Seat height 10.5"
Arm height 22.5" |
 Very good vintage. Age appropriate wear |
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