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| 1917 |
Florence Schust is born in Saginaw, Michigan |
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| 1932 |
Attends Kingswood School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
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Spends summers in Finland with Eliel and Loja Saarinen, afterwards traveling in Europe with
the Saarinens |
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| 1934 |
Studies architecture with Eliel Saarinen at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
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| 1940 |
Works for Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Studies architecture with Mies van der Rohe at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago |
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| 1941 |
Works for Harrison and Abramovitz, New York |
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| 1943 |
Begins working for Hans Knoll Furniture, 601 Madison Avenue, New York |
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Knoll Planning Unit established |
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| 1944 |
KnollTextiles established |
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| 1945 |
Knoll manufacturing plant established in East Greenville, Pennsylvania |
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| 1946 |
Florence Schust and Hans Knoll marry |
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Schust and Knoll establish Knoll Associates, Inc. |
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Interiors of Rockefeller family offices, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, first of a
continuing series of commissions from the Rockefeller family |
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| 1949 |
Contributes designs for An Exhibition for Modern Living at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, September 11 to November
20, 1949 |
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| 1951 |
Knoll International established. Florence Knoll designs office for Hans Knoll |
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Knoll showroom opens at 575 Madison Avenue, New York, the first of a series of showrooms designed by Florence Knoll, including Chicago,
1953; Milan, 1956; and San Francisco, 1956. |
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| 1954 |
Executive offices for CBS, 484 Madison Avenue, New York |
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Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Bloomfield, Connecticut. Architecture by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (with
partner in charge of design, Gordon Bunshaft). Interior design by Florence Knoll. |
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| 1955 |
Hans Knoll dies in an automobile accident in Havana, Cuba |
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| 1958 |
Florence Knoll marries banker Harry Hood Bassett |
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Interiors of First National Bank of Miami, Miami, Florida |
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H.J. Heinz Company offices, 600 Grant Street, Pittsburgh |
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| 1959 |
Florence Knoll Bassett sells her interest in Knoll to Art Metal, Inc., a New York office furniture company |
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Aluminum Company of America offices, 1501 Alcoa Building, Pittsburgh |
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| 1960 |
Florence Knoll Bassett retires as President of Knoll to become Director of Design |
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CBS Building, 51 West 52 West 52nd Street, New York. Architecture by Eero Saarinen and Associates. Interior design by Florence Knoll
Bassett. |
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| 1961 |
Receives American Institute of Architects' Industrial Design Gold Medal |
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| 1962 |
Look magazine offices, New York, of Cowles Media Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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Receives American Society of Interior Designers' International Design Award |
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| 1965 |
Resigns from Knoll |
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| 1975 |
A Modern Consciousness: D. J. De Pree, Florence Knoll exhibition at the Renwick Gallery of the
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., April 1 to November 9, 1975 and at the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan, November 30, 1975 to January 11, 1976 |
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| 1977 |
Receives American Society of Interior Designers' Total Design Award |
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| 1979 |
Receives Honorary D.F.A., Parsons School of Design, New York |
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| 1982 |
Receives Illinois Institute of Technology's Hall of Fame Award |
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| 2002 |
Receives National Medal of Arts, awarded by President George W. Bush |
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| 2004 |
Designs exhibition, Florence Knoll Bassett: Defining Modern, at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art |
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