Teak Coffee Table 'T-Angel' by Florence Knoll

The American architect and designer Florence Knoll (1917-2019) studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art under Eliel Saarinen, worked in the office of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer and completed her architecture studies in 1941 at the Illinois Institute of Technology under Mies van der Rohe. In 1943 she founded the Knoll Planning Unit, which developed interior concepts and complete office interiors for corporate clients, and from 1955 as president she took charge of all three Knoll companies. About half of the classic Knoll furniture collection, including sofas, armchairs, tables and sideboards, comes from her own design work. Her style is regarded as a function-oriented, humanised modernism with clear geometric forms and slender metal frames.