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FLORENCE KNOLL (Saginaw, United States, 1917 -...

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FLORENCE KNOLL (Saginaw, United States, 1917 - Coral Gables, 2019). Side table, ca. 1960's. In marbled marble. Steel legs. Rust stains. Measurements: 58 x 105 x 41 cm. Table of refined and elegant design, based on clean lines and essentialist concept. The white marble top, marbled in rich grey shades, rests on a minimal steel support. Florence Knoll was an architect and furniture designer who studied with Mies van der Rohe and Eliel Saarinen. She created the new model for the modern office in postwar America. The company she created with her husband, Knoll Associates, became a leader in innovative interior design and modern furniture in the 1950s and 1960s, becoming one of the most important publishers of Scandinavian design.