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Knoll Contemporary Collections

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Overview: The document is a catalog from Knoll, showcasing their 'Modern Always' and 'Contemporary Collections'. It highlights collaborations with renowned designers and presents various furniture collections, emphasizing the blend of modernism with sophisticated design.
Key Sections:
  • Introduction: Knoll's philosophy of collaborating with designers who are attuned to contemporary stimuli is highlighted. The company supports the realization of products derived from visionary designs without geographical or formal boundaries.
  • Matic Sofa Collection by Piero Lissoni: This collection features modular sofas with a structural design inspired by architecture. The sofas are characterized by low, ample seating with modular arms and backs, available in leather or fabric. The design allows for adaptability in various settings, with options for different finishes.
  • KN Collection by Knoll: Designed by Piero Lissoni, this collection includes armchairs that embody a seamless transition from past to future design aesthetics. The KN06 chair, for example, features a fiberglass structure with options for glossy or upholstered finishes, suitable for diverse contexts.
  • Design Philosophy: The catalog emphasizes Knoll's commitment to timeless design, blending modern aesthetics with functional sophistication. Each piece is designed to harmonize with its environment while maintaining a distinct presence.
Conclusion: Knoll's catalog showcases a range of furniture collections that reflect a dialogue between modern design and timeless elegance, supporting the vision of designers worldwide.
Matic Square Storage Unit: Piero Lissoni's Matic Square Storage Unit is designed with a flexible wooden tray, offering a minimalist and elegant appearance. The unit features marble covers in various colors that maintain its lightweight look.
Gould Sofa Collection: The Gould Sofa Collection by Piero Lissoni emphasizes a relaxed and informal seating style with classic-contemporary aesthetics. It offers large, comfortable cushions and is available in various sizes and configurations, including a chaise longue module. The design reflects Knoll's commitment to craftsmanship and technological innovation.
Red Baron by Knoll: The Red Baron is a versatile shelving unit characterized by ultra-thin aluminum shelves. It complements both classic and contemporary pieces within the Knoll collection.
Avio Sofa System: The Avio Sofa System is a modular and contemporary design that optimizes space usage. It appeals to those who appreciate elegant and comfortable design, suitable for a relaxed lifestyle.
Grasshopper Table Collection: The Grasshopper Table Collection features tables with slender surfaces and high-performance steel structures. Available in glass, heat-treated woods, and rare stones, these tables are versatile and reflect Knoll's craftsmanship. The design emphasizes elegance and weightlessness, suitable for both home and office environments.
Lissoni Outdoor Collection: Designed to complement Richard Schultz's 1966 outdoor furniture collection, the Lissoni Outdoor Collection includes lounge chairs and sofas with ample cushions, maintaining a classic and comfortable style.
Antonio Citterio — Klismos Collection: The Klismos Collection by Antonio Citterio, introduced in 2022, features armchairs, chaise longues, and sofas with oakwood structures available in natural or black finishes. The collection emphasizes comfort with leather or fabric upholstery and includes design elements like leather laces for the chaise longue's headrest. The collection's modern eclecticism integrates well with historic designs by Knoll.
Frank Gehry — Gehry Collection: Frank Gehry's collection, including the Cross Check Armchair, is inspired by his childhood experiences with apple crates. The design features interwoven maple strips, showcasing Gehry's ability to blend traditional materials with advanced technologies to create visionary and sculptural pieces.
Tobia Scarpa — Bastiano Sofa Collection: Originally designed in 1962, the Bastiano Sofa Collection by Tobia Scarpa has been updated for contemporary environments. The collection maintains its sophisticated yet casual and comfortable design, with wider and more relaxed proportions. The combination of soft cushions and sturdy wood frames highlights the collection's elegant informality.
Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby — Pilot Collection: The Pilot Chair, designed by Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby in 2015, embodies refinement, comfort, and exceptional craftsmanship. It features a modern silhouette with detailed stitching, offering a blend of casual comfort and modern simplicity.
Sofa Collection Overview: The Sofa Collection by Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby, introduced in 2016, is characterized by its compact and restrained forms combined with a comfortable and generous seating experience. This collection is part of Knoll's commitment to original design, ensuring authenticity and adherence to the original projects of renowned designers.
Krusin Collection: Designed by Marc Krusin, the Krusin Collection draws inspiration from traditional designs, updated with an industrialized craft aesthetic. It includes end tables that complement the Krusin Lounge and Side Chairs, maintaining a cohesive design language.
Knoll's Design Philosophy: Knoll emphasizes the importance of ideas as a designer's greatest heritage and reliability as a company's cornerstone. The company has consistently protected author design, ensuring fidelity to the original projects of great masters, which have shaped both the company's history and global design.
Production and Innovation: Knoll integrates artisanship with technology, using both skilled craftsmanship and artificial intelligence in production. The company values the experience of knowing when to use different production tools in an integrated process. Innovation at Knoll involves continuously renewing and adapting to the changing needs of the public, maintaining a dialogue with designers, and utilizing cutting-edge technologies.
Technical Information: The document provides detailed technical specifications for various collections, including dimensions and configurations for products like the Gehry Collection, KN Collection, Pilot Collection, Krusin Collection, and Matic Sofa Collection. These products are part of a system, offering multiple configurations to suit different needs.
Conclusion: Knoll's commitment to original design, innovation, and the integration of technology and craftsmanship is evident throughout its collections. The company's products are recognized globally for their authenticity and are featured in major museum collections worldwide.
Overview: This document provides detailed specifications and configurations for various sofa collections and furniture pieces by Knoll, including the Gould Sofa Collection, Avio Sofa System, and others. It highlights the modular nature of these collections, allowing for multiple configurations.
Specifications: The document lists dimensions for different modules and configurations, such as the Righthand ottoman, Central module, and Lefthand chaise longue. Dimensions are provided in length (L), depth (D), and height (H) in centimeters.
Collections:
  • Gould Sofa Collection: Features modular components like ottomans, chaise longues, and end modules with curved backs.
  • Avio Sofa System: Includes 2 to 7 seater sofas with optional L-shaped tables and rotating end mechanisms.
  • Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby Collection: Offers asymmetric sofas and chaise longues.
  • Grasshopper Collection: Features low and high tables in various shapes and sizes.
  • Boeri Collection: Includes lounge chairs, sofas, and ottomans.
Technical Information: Each collection is part of a system allowing for various configurations. The document emphasizes the availability of additional configurations beyond those listed.
Design and Production: The document credits various designers and collections, including Piero Lissoni and Marc Krusin. It also lists contributors to the design and production process, such as photographers and stylists.
Contact Information: Provides customer service contacts for different regions, including Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the USA, along with showroom locations in Paris, Milan, London, and New York.
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Modern Always Contemporary Collections Vol.2

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Knoll. The Original Design Contemporary Collections Modern Always®

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Knoll, The Original Design Piero Lissoni 010 Matic Sofa Collection 040 KN Collection by Knoll KN01, KN02, KN03, KN04, KN05, KN06, KN07 070 Panoramic Sofa Collection 076 Matic Credenzas 080 Matic Storage Units 084 Gould Sofa Collection 096 Red Baron by Knoll 100 Avio Sofa System 116 Grasshopper Table Collection 134 Lissoni Outdoor Collection Antonio Citterio 140 Klismos Collection by Knoll 152 Citterio Table Collection Frank Gehry 162 Frank Gehry Collection Tobia Scarpa 166 Bastiano Sofa Collection Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby 172 Pilot Collection for Knoll Pilot Chair - Low back Pilot Chair -...

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Knoll. The Original Design Modern Always®

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Knoll. The Original Design Modern Always® Knoll. Contemporary The OriginalCollections Design Contemporary Collections Knoll has always collaborated with those designers who are most attentive to the stimuli of their age. The world of architecture and design know that they can find in the company their strongest supporter in accomplishing a product derived from a vision. No geographical, regulatory or formal borders exist: wherever there is a designer confident in their own identity and thought, the company has an interlocutor. This is why the Contemporary catalogue marks, with its pieces, a recent...

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Knoll. The Original Design Modern Always® Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection A platform suspended in space, a cross between an island and architecture. An object imagined to float in space and present itself as a universe in and of itself. Matic borrows moves from a frame designed like a building with a strict structural system: pillars, footings, beams, columns, slabs. A high profile technological exercise that decides its own aesthetic destiny, its own form. Very low, ample seating of different dimensions, on which modular arms and backs can be arranged, created to provide structural support....

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection Modern Always®

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Piero Lissoni A muted nature, depending on the finishes, Matic can fit into settings where it disappears or can stand out with its decisive character, but discreetly. De nature nuancee, selon la finition choisie, Matic peut se fondre dans son environnement ou s’affirmer par son caractere, mais avec discretion. Di natura silenziosa, a seconda delle finiture Matic pud abitare nell’ambiente fin quasi a scomparire oppure affermarsi per il carattere deciso, ma con discrezione. In gedeckten Tonen, abhangig von der gewahlten Oberflache, kann Matic entweder mit seiner Umgebung verschmelzen oder mit seinem...

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection Matic Sofa Piero Lissoni, 2020 Bertoia Diamond Chair Harry Bertoia, 1952 Modern Always®

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection Matic Chaise Longue Piero Lissoni, 2020 Modern Always®

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection Matic is a collection of modular padded sofas of varying depths, upholstered in either leather or fabric. The chaise longue modules and end peninsula have seats upholstered with evenly-sized squares or with a T-seam, and are equipped with a curved back that moves. Matic è una collezione di sedute imbottite componibili dalle differenti profondità, rivestibili in pelle o in tessuto. Moduli chaise longue e terminale penisola hanno la seduta rivestita a quadri regolari oppure con cucitura a T, e sono dotati di uno speciale schienale...

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection Modern Always®

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection Modern Always®

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection The frontal profile, a key element of the project’s aesthetics that determines its capacity to adapt to different settings, can be in aluminium with a shiny finish or charcoal painted finish or covered in fabric or leather. The feet are in aluminium fusion, with either a shiny finish or charcoal painted. Il profilo frontale, elemento chiave dell’estetica del progetto che ne determina la capacità di adeguarsi ad ambienti diversi, può essere in alluminio finitura lucida o finitura verniciata color manganese oppure rivestito in tessuto...

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection Matic Sofa Piero Lissoni, 2020 Saarinen Low Table Eero Saarinen, 1957 Modern Always®

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection Modern Always®

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection Matic Sofa Piero Lissoni, 2020 Saarinen Side Table Eero Saarinen, 1957 Modern Always®

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — Matic Sofa Collection Matic Sofa Piero Lissoni, 2020 Modern Always®

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Piero Lissoni — KN Collection by Knoll Imagine listening to a conversation capable of shifting from a tale of the past to a tale of the future, seamlessly passing through the present. Something that captures the best frequencies of time and harmonises them. Like KN, the impeccable family of armchairs inspired by just such a movement: conceived of a form that embraces the spirit of modernism and at the same time expresses a sophisticated soul that outlines the future, while designing the present. Imaginez-vous en train d’ecouter une conversation qui evoluerait d’un recit du passe vers celui du...

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Knoll. The Original Design Piero Lissoni — KN Collection by Knoll KN06 is a chair that features a perfect homogeneity between inside and out, seating and structure. The structure is in fibreglass painted in a glossy white or glossy black colour, or upholstered in fabric or leather. The seat and the back in moulded flexible polyurethane can be upholstered in fabric or leather. The base with four legs in aluminium fusion is in a glossy finish or painted in glossy white or glossy black. In terms of aesthetic value, it is of an uncompromising industrial and technological quality, ideal for a wide...

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