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Particularly beautiful wall unit by Florence Knoll 1960

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Beautiful hanging cabinet made by Knoll International, see also the sticker in the photo. This cabinet was made and designed in the 1960s. This cabinet comes from a house with only knoll furniture, they were certainly people with very good taste. The cabinet is made of veneer with wood and the handles are made of black leather, everything is still in very good condition. The key is no longer present. Florence Knoll. Architect, furniture designer, interior designer, entrepreneur — Florence Knoll had a subtle but profound influence on the course of mid-century American modernism. Dedicated to functionality and organization, and never flamboyant, Knoll shaped the ethos of the postwar business world with her polished, efficient design and skillfully realized office plans. Knoll perhaps had the most thorough design education of any of her peers. Florence Schust was orphaned at age 12, and her guardian sent her to Kingswood, a girl's boarding school that is part of the Cranbrook Educational Community in suburban Detroit. Her interest in design brought her to the attention of Eliel Saarinen, the Finnish architect and head of the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Saarinen and his wife took the talented child under their wing, and she became close to their son, the future architect Eero Saarinen. While a student at the academy, Florence befriended artist-designer Harry Bertoia and Charles and Ray Eames. Later, she studied under three of the Bauhaus masters who emigrated to the United States. She worked as an apprentice in the Boston architectural offices of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe taught her at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

ConditionExcellentNumber of items1BrandKnollHeight48 cmWidth91 cmDepth45 cm