Knoll - Laccio coffee table 136x48 black laminated

Like its chairs Wassily and Cesca, the Laccio coffee table by Marcel Breuer is fundamental to the history of 20th century design. Breuer’s use of tubular steel to define the lines in space, beautifully displayed in these simple overlapping tables, revolutionized furniture construction and inspired generations of designers.

Marcel Breuer

Difensore del movimento moderno e protetto del fondatore del Bauhaus Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer è ugualmente celebrato per i suoi successi nell'architettura e nell'arredamento. Breuer era uno studente e successivamente un maestro falegname al Bauhaus nei primi anni '20. Il suo intero corpus di opere, sia architettura che mobili, incarna l'obiettivo guida del Bauhaus di conciliare arte e industria. Sebbene Breuer non abbia mai lavorato direttamente per Knoll, è comunque una figura influente nella storia dell'azienda. È stato uno dei primi mentore di Florence Knoll durante il suo periodo nell'ufficio di Walter Gropius negli anni '30. È stato anche Breuer a suggerire a Hans Knoll di assumere Eszter Haraszty, il direttore di Knoll Textiles responsabile di molte delle combinazioni di colori più memorabili della Knoll Planning Unit.

Knoll

Knoll uses modern design to connect people to their work, to their lives, to their world. Since 1938, it has been internationally recognized for creating furniture for work and residential environments.
 For more than 80 years Knoll has remained true to the Bauhaus design philosophy that modern furniture should complement the architectural space. At Knoll, modern design has been the guiding principle and this passion has been shared by customers and design professionals around the world. The founders, Hans and Florence Knoll, embraced the creative genius of the time.  Supported schools were Bauhaus School and Cranbrook Academy of Art to create new types of furniture and workplace environments. Their approach, where craftsmanship joins technology through the use of design, sets the perspective and shapes the values that live today. 80 years of historical collaborations, with pioneering modernists and daring contemporary designers, define not only the past but the future through active, recent and future collaborations with Antenna Design, Don Chadwick, Formway Design, Jehs & Laub, Joseph D'Urso , David Adjaye and OMA.