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Walter Knoll Art Collection

Rudolf B. Glatzel Vintage Walter Knoll Art Collection Leather & Stainless Chair
By Rudolf Bernd Glatzel, Walter Knoll
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Listed for sale is an original vintage 1970's Rudolf B. Glatzel armchair, produced by Walter Knoll
Category

Vintage 1970s American Modern Armchairs

Materials

Stainless Steel

2003 Walter Knoll Art Collection Dining Arm Chairs in Black Leather 4x Available
By Walter Knoll
Located in Philadelphia, PA
These are sophisticated modern 'Art Collection' armchairs, produced by Walter Knoll in Germany
Category

Early 2000s German Modern Side Chairs

Materials

Steel

2003 Walter Knoll Art Collection Arm Dining Side Chairs in Steel & Grey Leather
By Walter Knoll
Located in Philadelphia, PA
These are sophisticated modern Art Collection armchairs, produced by Walter Knoll in Germany. These
Category

Early 2000s European Modern Armchairs

Materials

Steel

2003 Walter Knoll Art Collection Dining Side Arm Chairs in Steel & Brown Leather
By Walter Knoll
Located in Philadelphia, PA
These are modern Art Collection armchairs, produced by Walter Knoll in Germany. These examples date
Category

Early 2000s European Modern Armchairs

Materials

Steel, Chrome

2000 Walter Knoll Art Collection Dining Arm Chair in Chromed Steel and Leather
By Walter Knoll
Located in Philadelphia, PA
These are sophisticated modern ‘Art Collection’ armchairs, produced by Walter Knoll in Germany
Category

Early 2000s German Modern Armchairs

Materials

Steel

Desk Office Armchair Designed by Walter Knoll, 1970s
By Rudolf Bernd Glatzel, Walter Knoll
Located in Antwerp, BE
A beautiful brown leather armchair designed by Rudolf Bernd Glatzel for Walter Knoll, from the Art
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Vintage 1970s German Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs

Materials

Stainless Steel

Desk Office Armchair Designed by Walter Knoll, 1970s
Desk Office Armchair Designed by Walter Knoll, 1970s
$910 Sale Price / item
30% Off
H 29.14 in W 27.56 in D 31.5 in

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Set of Four Black Leather Armchairs Design Walter Knoll
By Rudolf Bernd Glatzel, Walter Knoll
Located in 's Heer Arendskerke, NL
Set of four black leather armchairs by Walter Knoll, from the Art Collection series. Structure made
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Vintage 1980s European Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs

Materials

Chrome

Rudolf Bernd Glatzel Armchair in Steel and Leather for Walter Knoll 1970s
By Walter Knoll, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel
Located in Tilburg, NL
quality armchair by Rudolf Bernd Glatzel for Walter Knoll Art Collection, made in the 1970s. The chair
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Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

Materials

Stainless Steel

Walter Knoll Leather Art Collection Chair by Rudolf B. Glatzel
By Walter Knoll, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel
Located in Voorburg, NL
the 1980s for Walter Knoll as part of the Art Collection. 7-pieces available in excellent quality.  
Category

Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

Materials

Stainless Steel

Walter Knoll Leather Art Collection Chair by Rudolf B. Glatzel, 2 pcs
By Rudolf Bernd Glatzel, Walter Knoll
Located in Voorburg, NL
the 1980s for Walter Knoll as part of the Art collection. 2 pieces available, price per piece    
Category

Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Chairs

Materials

Stainless Steel

Superb Art Collection Easy Chair for Walter Knoll by Rudolf B Glatzel, 1970s
By Walter Knoll, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel
Located in Voorburg, NL
Elegant Art collection easy chair for Walter Knoll. Designed in the 1970s bij Rudolf B Glatzel
Category

Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Stainless Steel

Superb Art Collection Easy Chair for Walter Knoll by Rudolf B Glatzel, 1970s
By Knoll, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel
Located in Den Haag, NL
Elegant Art collection easy chair for Walter Knoll. Designed in the 1970s bij Rudolf B Glatzel
Category

Vintage 1970s German Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Leather

Art Collection leather office chair by Rudolf Berndt Glatzel for W. Knoll, 1980
By Walter Knoll, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel
Located in Ludwigslust, DE
This Art Collection swivel chair comes in dark brown leather with heavy stainless steel star feet
Category

Vintage 1980s German Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs

Materials

Leather

Art Collection set of 4 office chairs by Rudolf Berndt Glatzel for Knoll
By Walter Knoll, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel
Located in Ludwigslust, DE
The set of 4 art collection swivel chairs comes in dark brown leather with heavy stainless steel
Category

Vintage 1970s German Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs

Materials

Stainless Steel

Set of Four Camel/Brown Leather Armchairs Designed by Walter Knoll, 1970s
By Walter Knoll, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel
Located in Antwerp, BE
Knoll, from the Art collection series. Structure made off heavy stainless steel, brushed frame and
Category

Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Armchairs

Materials

Stainless Steel

Mid Century Walter Knoll Leather Art Collection Chair by Rudolf B. Glatzel, 1980
By Rudolf Bernd Glatzel, Walter Knoll
Located in Praha, CZ
- Very confortable - Top quality.
Category

Vintage 1980s German Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs

Materials

Metal

Alpha Art Collection Leather Lounge Chair, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel for Walter Knoll
By Walter Knoll, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel
Located in Bucharest, RO
Walter Knoll as part of the art collection.
Category

Vintage 1980s German Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs

Materials

Aluminum

Set of 4 Black Leather Armchairs Design Walter Knoll
By Rudolf Bernd Glatzel, Walter Knoll
Located in 's Heer Arendskerke, NL
Set of 4 black leather armchairs by Walter Knoll, from the Art Collection series. Structure made of
Category

Vintage 1980s European Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs

Materials

Chrome

Alpha Lounge Chair by Rudolf Bernd Glatzel for Walter Knoll, 1980s
By Walter Knoll, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel
Located in Bucharest, RO
for Walter Knoll as part of the art collection.  
Category

Vintage 1980s German Mid-Century Modern Club Chairs

Materials

Aluminum

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By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Knoll
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$4,600
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Walter Knoll Art Collection For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the walter knoll art collection you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Frequently made of metal, stainless steel and animal skin, every walter knoll art collection was constructed with great care. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer walter knoll art collection, there are earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. A walter knoll art collection, designed in the mid-century modern or modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. A well-made walter knoll art collection has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Walter Knoll, Knoll and Florence Knoll are consistently popular.

How Much is a Walter Knoll Art Collection?

The average selling price for a walter knoll art collection at 1stDibs is $2,466, while they’re typically $961 on the low end and $9,900 for the highest priced.

Walter Knoll for sale on 1stDibs

Inspired by the Bauhaus — founded in 1919 by Walter GropiusWalter Knoll decided to bet big on modernism. He launched his eponymous German furniture maker in 1925, and the company has been going strong ever since.

Most design lovers are familiar with Knoll, the manufacturer of furniture by Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and other modernist giants. It was founded by Hans Knoll in 1941 and led after his death by his wife, Florence Knoll, the doyenne of postwar American office interiors. In recent years, the company has added collections by Maya Lin, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry and David Adjaye, among others, and encouraged customers to do what some of them had been doing all along: use Knoll’s “office furniture” at home.

Fewer Americans are familiar with Walter Knoll, the company Hans’s father founded in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1925 and later moved to nearby Herrenberg. That company has existed in the shadow of the larger U.S.-based Knoll for decades.

Both companies descended from the German manufacturer of ornate leather goods established by Wilhelm Knoll in 1866. In 1907, Wilhelm’s sons, Willy and Walter, took over the father’s business and started producing leather club chairs. Five years later, the company introduced its Nestra line of stripped-down wood and leather seating, foreshadowing the family’s future innovations.

In 1925, when he was 50, Walter Knoll launched the Walter Knoll Company, which soon released the revolutionary Prodomo line of chairs, whose upholstered seats and backs are supported by tubular metal frames. Other lightweight Walter Knoll pieces were used in the passenger compartment of the Hindenburg zeppelin.

In 1927, Walter Knoll furnished five apartments designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the Weissenhof Estate, 21 prototypes of “workers’ housing of the future” constructed as part of an exhibition in Stuttgart. A decade later, Walter’s son Hans, then 24, traveled to the United States to market his father’s furniture and to make a new life for himself in the New World. But inspired by his encounters with Jens Risom — a Danish-born designer who furthered Scandinavian modernism in the United States — Hans broke away from Walter, creating Knoll Associates (now known simply as Knoll). Florence Schust (later to become Hans’s wife) joined him in the company in 1943, and soon they were working with mid-century modern icons such as Saarinen and Bertoia on new designs and licensing Mies’s Barcelona chair.

After the war, with his factories destroyed and labor and materials in short supply, Walter Knoll turned to Hans for help. Hans sent over several pieces from his Vostra line, designed by Risom. Walter replaced the web seats with upholstery and launched his version of the Vostra at the New Living exhibition in Cologne in 1949. It became hugely successful, persuading many Germans still accustomed to traditional furniture to give modernism a go.

Walter Knoll retired in 1964, but his namesake firm continued growing in Germany. Just like the American Knoll, Walter Knoll has found that some customers want to use pieces originally meant as office furniture in their houses. In fact, these pieces give living and dining rooms a crispness that almost no residential furniture can match.

Find vintage Walter Knoll lounge chairs, sofas, tables and other furniture on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right Seating for You

With entire areas of our homes reserved for “sitting rooms,” the value of quality antique and vintage seating cannot be overstated.

Fortunately, the design of side chairs, armchairs and other lounge furniture — since what were, quite literally, the early perches of our ancestors — has evolved considerably.

Among the earliest standard seating furniture were stools. Egyptian stools, for example, designed for one person with no seat back, were x-shaped and typically folded to be tucked away. These rudimentary chairs informed the design of Greek and Roman stools, all of which were a long way from Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool or Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. In the 18th century and earlier, seats with backs and armrests were largely reserved for high nobility.

The seating of today is more inclusive but the style and placement of chairs can still make a statement. Antique desk chairs and armchairs designed in the style of Louis XV, which eventually included painted furniture and were often made of rare woods, feature prominently curved legs as well as Chinese themes and varied ornaments. Much like the thrones of fairy tales and the regency, elegant lounges crafted in the Louis XV style convey wealth and prestige. In the kitchen, the dining chair placed at the head of the table is typically reserved for the head of the household or a revered guest.

Of course, with luxurious vintage or antique furnishings, every chair can seem like the best seat in the house. Whether your preference is stretching out on a plush sofa, such as the Serpentine, designed by Vladimir Kagan, or cozying up in a vintage wingback chair, there is likely to be a comfy classic or contemporary gem for you on 1stDibs.

With respect to the latest obsessions in design, cane seating has been cropping up everywhere, from sleek armchairs to lounge chairs, while bouclé fabric, a staple of modern furniture design, can be seen in mid-century modern, Scandinavian modern and Hollywood Regency furniture styles.

Admirers of the sophisticated craftsmanship and dark woods frequently associated with mid-century modern seating can find timeless furnishings in our expansive collection of lounge chairs, dining chairs and other items — whether they’re vintage editions or alluring official reproductions of iconic designs from the likes of Hans Wegner or from Charles and Ray Eames. Shop our inventory of Egg chairs, designed in 1958 by Arne Jacobsen, the Florence Knoll lounge chair and more.

No matter your style, the collection of unique chairs, sofas and other seating on 1stDibs is surely worthy of a standing ovation.