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Philadelphia Museum of Art Hosts Retrospective of Knoll Office FurniturePhiladelphia Museum of Art Hosts Retrospective of Knoll Office Furniture
Although the furniture designs featured in Florence Knoll Bassett's first-ever museum exhibition are a half-century old, they could blend in seamlessly in the showroom of a chic home-design store.
The 87-year-old modernism pioneer, who was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2002, emerged from virtual seclusion to curate the small exhibition featuring 11 of her perhaps best-known and most-imitated pieces of home and office furniture. Also included are photographs of corporate interiors Knoll created, including the New York offices of CBS and the Pittsburgh headquarters of Heinz Co.
"Florence Knoll Bassett: Defining Modern" runs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through April 10
Her signature furnishings often take such elements as chrome-plated steel legs, top them with refined fabric, lustrous wood or richly veined marble, and combine them in an inviting and architectural way.
"She was a maverick," said Kathryn Hiesinger, one of the museum's design curators. "In the 1950s, here was a woman telling male executives what their offices were going to look like, which just hadn't existed."
While the designs of some of her lesser mid-20th century contemporaries have been relegated to the category of kitsch, Knoll Bassett's streamlined yet lux
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