The living-dining area of their own residence is lined with doors and windows from Phoenix Glass for Columbia Aluminum Products.
The Tulip Chair consists of a reinforced plastic and aluminum stem with a curved fiberglass shell.
Within the 3,500-square-foot interior, the neutral setting acts as a serene canvas for the owners’ art and furniture collections. When touring the home, you’ll also find a 600-square-foot exterior terrace.
Edgeland House, built on a cliff-top lot in Austin by architect Thomas Bercy for lawyer and writer Chris Brown, is topped by a living roof that helps it blend into the landscape. The concrete, steel, and glass house is divided into two distinct public and private halves.
George Nakashima. Photo: Nakashima Archives
A limited-edition Roy Lichtenstein carpet dominates one wall of designer and architect Gae Aulenti’s living room in Milan. She lived in this Brera apartment, mostly furnished with her own designs, such as her 1964 April folding chairs for Zanotta—from 1974 until her death in October 2012.
Jens RisomJens Risom’s spot in the canon of mid-century American design is one marked by displacement. Some of the accolades heaped upon the great designers should rightly have gone to Risom, who, with Hans Knoll, began priming the market for modern design as early as 1941 with the Risom-designed 600 line for Knoll. It included the first Knoll chair ever. View his prefab house in Rhode Island here.
While Barber Osgerby has collaborated with many furniture companies—including Vitra, B&B Italia, Isokon, Cappellini, and Established & Sons, among others—the line with Knoll was among its first forays into designing upholstered pieces. "Upholstery, for us, is actually one of the most difficult things to do because we’re really into the micro details," Barber says. "Upholstery doesn’t really work like that. It’s a different skill set. It’s about stitching. It’s about where the fabric lies. It’s about the angle of the seat and how soft it needs to be at the front of the seat compared the back of the seat. It’s a whole new set of rules. The seat of a wooden chair is the same in the front as it is in the back. You’ve just got to pick the angle. Upholstery is much more complex."
The sofa is available in three different color options for the foot and six different upholstery choices. Visit knoll.com for more.
There used to be walls; now Barbara Hill's bed offers views not just of Houston, but also a French farm table surrounded by a sextet of black and white Harry Bertoia chairs for Knoll.
Maya Lin in her New York City studio. Her latest multimedia work, What is Missing?, is a memorial for extinct species.
This is is your first furniture collection. Did you approach designing the pieces in the same way you do for architectural projects?
I explored a number of themes in the Knoll furniture—such as monumentality, materiality and history—which are also evident in my architectural projects. So the formal language is shared with some of the buildings I am currently working on. There is a common line of inquiry.
The aluminum Wahshington Skeleton Chair (shown above) is available in four different finishes. Its lattice pattern is reminiscent of Adjaye's design for the National Museum of African American History and Culture's facade. Photo by: Josh McHugh
Antenna Workspaces desk by Antenna Design for Knoll. Knoll expands its line of classic American office furniture with a worktable set on tubular steel rails and legs.
British Overseas Airline Company by Risley & Gould, Beverly Hills, California (1961).
The narrow hallway separates an office and television room at one end of the house from Wexler and Zimmerman’s master suite, which sports an Emma Gardner rug and matching Saarinen Womb chair, made for Knoll, perfect for lounging.
An Eero Saarinen Womb chair and ottoman, an Isamu Noguchi Akari lamp, and forest views make for a cozy reading nook.
In the dining area, a trio of Beat pendants by Tom Dixon hang over an Eames table for Herman Miller and Saarinen Executive Armless chairs from Knoll. Flat Onyx Black paint by Glidden sets off a Corbin Smith photograph. “It’s like you’re erasing things by painting,” Grimley says of the inky hue.
Chris Grimley and Kelly Smith transformed a cramped apartment into a family-friendly home. The room shared by Mae, three, and her little brother Roen, one, features a custom prototype mural by FilzFelt, their mother’s textile design company. The carpet is by Flor, and the child-size chair and Amoeba table are both by Jens Risom for Knoll.
Alexandra Lange: Also Jonathan Olivares's elegant aluminum chair for Knoll, which was designed with the icons in mind.
18 more saves