FLORENCE KNOLL COFFEE TABLE

Design by Florence Knoll for Knoll
The Florence Knoll Collection: Low tables
Dimensions /
L114 x D57 x H43 CM
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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. 

L114 x D57 x H43cm

L90 x D90 x H48cm

L75 x D75 x H48cm

L60 x D60 x H43cm

 
Top: 15mm thick polished plate polished glass; or 20mm marble, coated with transparent polyester to help avoid use-associated stains.

Base: Frame and legs, rectangular and square welded steel in polished chrome finish.