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A 1960s interior, designed by Vittorio Vigano, containing a lounge chair and ottoman
made of leather and rosewood, designed by Charles Eames in 1956, illustrated in Forma
e Colore dell’Arredamento Moderno, 1967.
office but also to bring the iconic work of others, both older Modernists
such as Mies van de Rohe, as well as her contemporaries, Harry Bertoia
and Eero Saarinen among them, into that new context. The model of ‘corporate
Modernism’ that she helped to create was an extremely powerful
one, mirroring the developments in office block building in the us of
the immediate post-war years. An architect by training who had worked
with Gropius and Breuer, Florence Knoll created a new language for the
modern office and the home that was both modern and inhabitable. 16 Her
approach was exemplified in a number of the interiors she created, among
them an office for Connecticut General in 1957 and another for the
National Bank of Miami in 1957–8. 17 Her 1950s design for Knoll Associates’