Tag: Hans and Florence Knoll

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Wendy Diamond

Bau Wau Haus: The Dog Behind the Knoll Furniture Enterprise

  The most modern and stark designs are tempered by a floppy eared and hairy presence-sprawled on the floor next to Eero Saarinen’s clean-lined grasshopper chair.  That may have been the rationale Hans and Florence Knoll used when deciding to include their Old English Sheepdog, Cartree, in their advertising campaigns. 

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