Charles Pfister (1938 – 1990) was an American interior and furniture designer
2022-09-21
Charles Pfister (1939 to 1990) was an American interior and furniture designer and architect. He was professionally active in San Francisco.Read More →
Otto Zapf German product and furniture designer
2022-07-15
Otto Zapf has created an essential system of furniture designs. Including the Zapf Office System by Knoll and 7500 workstations by Pacific Telesis. He and Dieter Rams designed their first furniture in the 1960s and 1970s.Read More →
Ross Franklin Littell (1924 – 2000) American textile and furniture designer
2021-11-14
Ross Franklin Littell (1924 – 2000) was an American textile and furniture designer known forRead More →
Marc Newson’s Aluminum Chair for Knoll
2021-11-13
Honoring the cantilevered chairs of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Newson Aluminum Chair, 90 years later, is a forward-looking expression that synthesizes simplicity, material and precision, in the Modernist tradition.Read More →
Richard Schultz (1930 – 2021) American sculptor and furniture designer
2021-10-31
In 1951, he became a member of Knoll’s design development group. Initially, he collaborated on the wire Diamond sitting collection with Harry Bertoia. Schultz designed the Petal table in 1960, steel-wire lounge chairs in 1961, and outdoor Leisure Collection seating and tables in 1966 for Knoll. He designed a 1981 collection of outdoor furniture while pursuing his passion for the outdoors.Read More →
Dwell and Gear Patrol detail the Wassily Chair and Bertoia Diamond Chair
2021-06-25
The chair shown in Dwell is the Wassily Chair. Inspired by a bicycle frame’s functional design, apprentice Marcel Bruer reduced the classic club chair to its elemental lines and planes using tubular steel.Read More →