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Knoll, Florence

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Knoll, Florence (1917- )

US designer. After architecture and design study and work with Eliel Saarinen, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, she joined the Hans G Knoll furniture company in 1943, where she perfected such office features as the executive table desk and the boat-shaped conference table. Fabric walls and natural materials in her institutional and commercial interiors humanized the International style. Marrying Knoll in 1946, she headed the company after his death (1955-59). In 1965 she started a private practice. Knoll was born in Saginaw, Michigan.
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