Each time I go East I see something you have done. It is always good, and I feel grateful to you for doing such work in a world where mediocrity is the norm.
Charles Eames in a letter to Florence Knoll
Florence Knoll 1917–2019
Florence Knoll (née Florence Schust) was born in Michigan in 1917. As a child, she was enrolled in the Kingswood School, a division of the Cranbrook School of Art. Eliel and Loja Saarinen, parents of architect Eero Saarinen, quickly noted her talents, and she became a close friend of the family often joining them on vacations to their summer home in Finland. In 1935, Knoll studied urban planning at Columbia University and continued her degree at the Architectural Association of London from 1938 to 1939. World War II brought Knoll back to the United States where she finished her degree in architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago studying under Mies van der Rohe. After graduating, Knoll moved to Massachusetts to work in the office of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.
Auction Results Florence Knoll
Florence Knoll
Executive Office cabinet
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $17,500
Florence Knoll
credenza
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $11,400
Florence Knoll
custom cabinet
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $11,250
Florence Knoll
cabinet, model 122
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $10,000
Florence Knoll
cabinet
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $10,000
Florence Knoll
Custom cabinet for Alcoa Headquarters, Pittsburgh
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $9,750
Florence Knoll
triple cabinet
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $9,600
Florence Knoll
credenza
estimate: $4,000–6,000
result: $9,600
Florence Knoll
credenza
estimate: $3,000–4,000
result: $9,600
Florence Knoll
credenza
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $9,375
Florence Knoll
cabinet from the CBS building, New York
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $9,375
Florence Knoll
Executive Office cabinet
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $8,750