Richard Schultz Collection Brochure (50.84 MB) - Knoll

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1 9 5 1 1 9 5 3 1 9 5 6 1 9 5 7 Florence Knoll Harry Bertoia Knoll 721H Bed Knoll 704 Sofa Bed 1950 MoMA Lamp Competition Honorable Mention 1959 MoMA Recent Sculpture USA Influences Wassily Kandinsky Paul Klee Herbert Read “Education through Art” Bauhaus approach to creativity would provide a richer education than book learning. Moholy-Nagy “Vision in Motion” 1947 A book about the process. Like a bible. I always thought of myself as being connected to that whole movement. It was indoctrination, like joining a religion with emphasis on achievements in art in the 20th century. Everyone was so enthusiastic about the whole thing. For many years I felt as though I had inherited that culture and was in the line of those people, because I had gone to that school and was so indoctrinated in their way of thinking. I was always interested in sculpture. I tried to make abstractions of the European monuments that were somewhat sculptural in feeling. For example, I was very impressed by San Gimignano, which I had never heard of. It wasn't part of my art history course, but I found out about it and I went there from Florence on a bus. It is one of the extraordinary places, a very sculptural place. I started out by making realistic drawings of it and then made many abstractions of those drawings. 9
1 9 6 0 1 9 6 0 1 9 6 3 1 9 6 5 Knoll 320, 321, 311 Petal Tables Knoll 149 Pedestal Stacking Chair Knoll 715 Chaise Knoll 3454 Coffee Table, 4106 and 4146 Executive Desks 1962 Staempfli Gallery, NYC Twenty Sculptors 1963 Knoll Chaise Included in the MoMA Design Collection Knoll 1951-1972 In those days, if you were interested in furniture there were only two places to work: Knoll and Herman Miller. I applied to Knoll and got hired right away, which was a great piece of luck. When I went to apply for the job I had no idea what it would be like to work there. When I started, I worked in New York at the Planning Unit, which was essentially an interior design office where Florence Knoll worked on interiors for clients. It was a furniture company but also an interior design company, so you had the experience of designing for an actual use. Knoll was like not leaving school. It was like a postgraduate course. Knoll was a very simple company, no department of design and development, so you had to do everything yourself. You designed the furniture, you invented the way to make it, you designed the jigs and tooling, and for a little while, you were in charge of production until it got going and the various foremen and supervisors took over. Then you went onto something else. It was a fabulous education because it meant that what you designed had to be producible. It was an ivory tower existence. I also met Trudy there, and after we married we immediately went to Europe. Hans and Florence “Shu” Knoll They had the self-confidence that they knew what was the right thing. They were not market oriented. Shu said, “Good design is good business.” Their attitude was, “We do what we think is right, and we hope people will agree with us.” You were very conscious that you were working for a company that was in the forefront. Hans and Florence Knoll were an influence not so much in terms of form and style, but more in terms of quality and level of excellence. 10
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