FLORENCE KNOLL - BASSETT
(1917-)
BIRTHPLACE: USA
PROFESSION: Architect
KNOLL® PRODUCTS: Office and residential furniture and accessories

While a student at the Kingswood School on the campus of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Florence Schust became a protegée of Eero Saarinen. She studied architecture at Cranbrook, the Architectural Association, London, and the Armour Institute (Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago). She worked briefly for Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Wallace K. Harrison. She joined the offices of Hans Knoll in 1943. In 1946, she became a full business and design partner and married Hans Knoll, after which they formed Knoll Associates. She organized and directed the Knoll Planning Unit, which was responsible for developing most of the early products as well as solutions to many modern corporate interiors. She retired from the firm in 1965.