{"id":4825,"date":"2025-03-04T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:24:45","slug":"the-humble-florence-knoll-lounge-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/the-humble-florence-knoll-lounge-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humble Florence Knoll Lounge Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4829\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/store\/pc\/Florence-Knoll-Style-Chairs-c1451.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4829\" class=\"wp-image-4829 size-medium\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Knoll-281x300.png\" alt=\"Florence Knoll Style Lounge Chair\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Knoll-281x300.png 281w, https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Knoll.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florence Knoll Style Lounge Chair<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century, interior design was taking a new direction and breaking free of the previously stagnant norms.\u00a0 Furniture innovations especially were emerging and flourishing.\u00a0 It was an exciting time for everyone who was ready to welcome this fresh change brought on by the iconic designers of the time like Eero Saarinen and Harry Bertoia and Florence Knoll.<\/p>\n<p>Always one to maintain a level-head though, Florence Knoll took a step back to view the bigger picture.\u00a0 She could see there would be a need for furniture specifically designed to offset her colleagues&#8217; organically-shaped and curved furniture designs.\u00a0 She took it upon herself to design what she would later describe as the &#8220;the fill-in piece no one else wants to do.&#8221;\u00a0 Perhaps she might have given herself more credit\u00a0if Knoll knew her designs would become ageless modern classics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our\u00a0<a href=\"\/store\/pc\/Florence-Knoll-Style-Chairs-c1451.htm\">Florence Knoll Style Lounge Chair<\/a> honors the same dimensions as the original model.\u00a0 We have improved upon it by using a higher quality of materials that have become available in the years since the original design.\u00a0 You can read all about these improvements in our <a href=\"\/products\/comparison-guide-florence-knoll-lounge-chair.html\">Florence Knoll Lounge Chair Comparison Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Come visit us at our <a href=\"\/mc-showroom-bellingham.html\">Bellingham Showroom<\/a> showroom where you can see everything we have to offer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 20th\u00a0century, interior design was taking a new direction and breaking free of the previously stagnant norms.\u00a0 Furniture innovations especially were emerging and flourishing.\u00a0 It was an exciting time for everyone who was ready to welcome this fresh change brought on by the iconic designers of the time like Eero Saarinen and Harry Bertoia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,50,3,6,107,1,87],"tags":[38,147,74,86],"class_list":["post-4825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florence-knoll","category-closer-looks","category-comparison-guides","category-designer-notes","category-florence-knoll-seating","category-furniture-notes","category-modern","tag-closer-looks","tag-florence-knoll","tag-modern","tag-modern-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}