Richard Meier's 1974 Shamberg House in Town & Country

The April 2017 issue of Town & Country magazine featured architect Richard Meier's Shamberg House, a 1974 private home built in Chappaqua, New York. Immediately recognizable for its modernist formalism and pristine white surfaces, the house is now occupied by fashion designer Norma Kamali, who tells the magazine of "a blurred line between architecture, design, and fashion."

Moving into Meier's signature design meant determining the balance between new and old, as Kamali was prompted to adjust her movements in accordance with the striking design and spatial patterns that Meier had envisioned so many decades prior. With this legacy came a range of furniture original to the house, including a set of Cesca Chairs in black handwoven cane, which were designed by another acclaimed modernist, Marcel Breuer.

In the early 1980s, Richard Meier came to Knoll with a chair that he had originally designed for the reading room at the Guggenheim. Intrigued by the formal clarity of the design, signature to Meier's architectural work, Knoll commissioned Meier to design a colleciton of lounge furniture. The result was a unique collection of laminated wood furniture, finished with a meticulously hand-rubbed black lacquer.