Knoll Showrooms
The Knoll showrooms embodied their humanised modern designs, showing the customers how to use their new furniture. Their first showroom was opened in 1948 in New York followed by showrooms in Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles and others. These showrooms did not exhibit office interiors but rather living room and lounge arrangements to show different solutions in interior design through the Planning unit and Knoll furnishings. Residential customers were more experimental in their colour, texture and shape selections of Knoll designs, whereas the corporate clients preferred more functional looking design.
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“... a family I know ... bought an acre in the country on which to build a house. For many years, while they lacked the money to build, they visited the site regularly and picnicked on a knoll, the site’s most attractive feature. They liked so much to visualize themselves as always there, that when they finally built they put the house on the knoll. But then the knoll was gone. Somehow they had not realized they would destroy it and lose it by supplanting it with themselves.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)