Florence Knoll™ Coffee and End Tables

Designed by Florence Knoll

Florence Knoll 1954

Product description:
Florence Knoll Coffee and End Tables, designed to furnish the new interiors of postwar America, are scaled-down translations of the lines, gestures and materials of modern architecture. Consistent with all of her designs, the tables have a spare, geometric presence that reflects the objective perfectionism and rational design approach Florence Knoll learned from her mentor, Mies van der Rohe.

Product story
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-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 lounge collection, designed in 1954, is a perfect example of her restrained, geometric approach to furniture, clearly derived from her favorite mentor, Mies van der Rohe.

Florence Knoll
After demonstrating an early interest in architecture, Florence Schust was enrolled at the Kingswood School for Girls, adjacent to the Cranbrook Academy of Art. There she met Eilel Saarinen, and went on to study under some of the greatest 20th century architects, including Gropius, Breuer, and Mies van der Rohe.
With Florence's design skills and her husband Hans' business acumen and salesmanship, the pair grew Knoll into an international arbiter of style and design. In creating the revolutionary Knoll Planning Unit, Florence Knoll defined the standard for the modern corporate interiors of post-war America.

Specifications:
- 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
- Learn more about Florence Knoll™ Coffee & End Tables product certifications and materials at Ecomedes.
- Additional Note
- Low Coffee Tables are only available with polished chrome base and clear glass, Arabescato, Calacatta, Carrara and Grigio Marquina tops (marbles available with polished and satin finish).