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Knoll Textiles, nineteen hundred forty five - two thousand ten by bard graduate center, Earl Martin, Paul Makovsky, Bobbye Tigerman, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture (BGC, New York), Earl Martin, Knoll International, inc., Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, the Knoll Planning Unit. In 1947, the year after their marriage, Hans and Florence Knoll added a third division, Knoll Textiles, which brought textile production in line with a modern sensibility that used color and texture as primary design elements. In the early years, the company hired leading proponents of modern design as well as young, untried designers to create textile patterns. The division thrived in the late 1940s through 1960s and, in the following decade, adopted a more international outlook as design direction shifted to Europe. In the late 1970s and 1980s, Knoll tapped fashion designers and architects to bolster its brand. The pioneering use of new materials and a commitment to innovative design have remained Knoll's hallmarks to the present day. With essays by experts, biographies of about eighty designers, and images of textiles, drawings, furniture, and ephemera, Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010 is the first comprehensive study devoted to a leading contributor to modern te

Author

bard graduate center, Earl Martin, Paul Makovsky, Bobbye Tigerman, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture (BGC, New York), Earl Martin, Knoll International, inc., Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History

Publisher

has been generously supported by knoll inc

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300170696

Subjects

Technology, History, Stem

Rating

4 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14