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Knoll: a century of design from thirty global architects — one catalogue
Some catalogues are inventories; Knoll's is a library: «a hundred years of design from thirty global designers and architects», as the house puts it — Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair, Saarinen, Bertoia and Risom beside today's Lissoni, Barber & Osgerby and Antenna Design. For premium Indian projects, that breadth solves a real problem: executive floors, boardrooms and lobbies furnished from one design culture — «Modern always» — with Knoll office systems for the working floors and icons for the representative ones.
La Mercanti coordinates the full range for Indian projects — most of it, notably, made in Italy.
FAQ
How does one brand cover working and representative floors?
By running two registers in one culture: Knoll office systems for desks and teams, the modern icons for boardrooms and lobbies — same design DNA, different volume.
What does «Modern always» mean in practice?
That nothing in the catalogue expires: the icons stay in production for decades while new designers extend the language — a specification that will still be current at phase three.
How to furnish an HQ from one design culture
Five steps to coherence across ten floors.
Define the two registers
Working floors and representative floors, one language.
Let icons mark thresholds
Entrances and boardrooms carry the classics.
Systematize the desks
Office lines scale by module, not by improvisation.
Bridge with materials
Shared palettes connect the registers quietly.
Plan decade-long
Choose lines with production history — they'll outlast the lease.