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The creators

Bruce Hannah, graduated from Pratt Institute in 1963 with a degree in industrial design. His design career began in 1967 when he collaborated on several award-winning seating groups for Knoll. In 1976, Bruce Hannah created his own design office. In 1990, the Hannah desktop system for Knoll was named Design of the Decade by the IDSA – Industrial Design Society of America. In 1992, Bruce was appointed first designer in residence at the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Biography of Bruce Hannah In 1993, Bruce received the Bronze Apple from the IDSA New York Chapter for the first national design conference on universal design. Bruce is a full professor at the Pratt Institute and continues to design, most recently, an exhibition at the National Design Museum entitled Unlimited by Design. In 1998, Bruce was named President of Undergraduate Industrial Design and Graduate Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, and received the National Design Education Award from IDSA.

Andrew Morrison born in 1939 in the USA A graduate and instructor at the Pratt Institute, Andrew Morrison was a major contributor to the Knoll product portfolio from the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties. In the early 1970s, he collaborated with colleague Bruce Hannah to introduce an innovative, award-winning aluminum-framed living room collection. Morrison believed that furniture should be designed with manufacturing as the primary consideration. As a result, his designs for Knoll focused on ease of production, shipping, and assembly. In 1986, Morrison made its biggest contribution to Knoll with the Morrison system, a revolutionary open product, which is still produced by Knoll. Designed to meet the changing workplace of the 1980s, the Morrison system was designed to expand and adapt as modern office models and technology changed.

The publisher

Knoll is an American company manufacturing office furniture and equipment. It was founded in 1938 by Hans Knoll, an entrepreneur of German origin. With his wife Florence Knoll he developed the company and made it one of the most creative and prolific of the post-war period. Both create a “Knoll style”; they imposed their vision of development thanks to the Planning Unit, a unique service of its kind for the time, combining interior architecture, design, production, textiles, graphics. After her husband’s death in 1955, Florence replaced Hans as head of the company. In 1965, she left the company.

Like Herman Miller, Knoll’s importance in twentieth-century design  is considerable. Knoll worked with a number of notable post-war architects and designers, such as Eero Saarinen, Isamu Noguchi, Frank Gehry and Ross Lovegrove. For a time, the company reissued great design references such as Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair. Many pieces of furniture made by Knoll are now part of design history.

Knoll is headquartered in East Greenville, Pennsylvania and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange Knoll has more than 4,000 employees on five continents. It is one of the major players in office furniture and layout.

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