Walter Knoll Black Leather FK Lowback Bucket Chair with 3-Star Base
View Similar Items
Walter Knoll Black Leather FK Lowback Bucket Chair with 3-Star Base
About the Item
- Creator:Walter Knoll (Manufacturer),Jørgen Kastholm & Preben Fabricius (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)Depth: 28.25 in (71.76 cm)Seat Height: 17.75 in (45.09 cm)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:2015
- Estimated Production Time:Available Now
- Condition:
- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU3203113279032
Walter Knoll
Inspired by the Bauhaus — founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius — Walter 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.
- Walter Knoll Deen Leather Chair in STOCKBy Walter KnollLocated in New York, NYDeen designed by Eoos for Walter Knoll is a beautiful chair with stainless steel legs.Category
2010s German Chairs
MaterialsLeather
$295 Sale Price80% Off - Walter Knoll Turtle Chair in STOCKBy Walter Knoll, PearsonLloydLocated in New York, NYOn the outside, the bucket is a success with its clean sweeping vital lines; inside, a second, comfortably upholstered bucket is perfect for relaxing. Turtle is easy to swivel with a...Category
2010s European Chairs
MaterialsFabric
$495 Sale Price81% Off - Marcatre Highback Archizoom Black Leather Desk ChairLocated in New York, NY1 highback By Marcatre and designed by Paolo Deganella and Gilberto Corretti, members of the Italian "Archizoom" group.Category
2010s Italian Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
MaterialsChrome
$1,200 Sale Price40% Off - Artifort Beso Sled Base Lounge Chair in STOCKBy ArtifortLocated in New York, NYBeso lounge chair UPHOLSTERED IN PG CC: MAX KNIT #923 Beso, Spanish for ‘kiss’, is an affordable and highly versatile chair programe created by Dutch designer Khodi Feiz. In terms of shape and construction, the Beso allows for long comfortable dinners with friends and family or brainstorm sessions, without the need to take a break or stretch your legs. The chair was introduced at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2016. The Beso sled base lounge chair...Category
2010s Dutch Armchairs
MaterialsFabric
$980 Sale Price40% Off - M2L M Swivel Desk Chair in STOCKLocated in New York, NYSwivel chair 4 stars chromed steel base padded and upholsteredCategory
2010s Italian Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
MaterialsTextile
$195 Sale Price72% Off - DeSede DS-1051 Executive Leather Swivel ArmchairBy De SedeLocated in New York, NYThe DNA of a Classic and yet very much a programme for today. With its clean-cut lines, painstaking craftsmanship, premium-quality materials and devotion to detail, the DS-51 chair i...Category
2010s Swiss Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
MaterialsLeather
$1,980 Sale Price / item51% Off
- Fabricius Kastholm FK711 Office Chairs Walter Knoll, Germany, 1971By Preben Fabricius, Jørgen KastholmLocated in Roosendaal, Noord BrabantLarge set of 8 office chairs model FK711 designed by Preben Fabricius and Jorgen Kastholm and manufactured by Walter Knoll, Germany 1971. These ...Category
Vintage 1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
MaterialsStainless Steel
- Danish Armchair, Black Leather and Chromed Steel, model FK 6725 Fabricius/Knoll.By Walter Knoll, Jørgen Kastholm & Preben FabriciusLocated in JOINVILLE-LE-PONT, FRSuperb Scandinavian armchair. Structure with three legs in Chromed Steel, seats and backs in cowhide leather in excellent condition. This piece of furniture comes from the premises o...Category
Early 2000s Danish Scandinavian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
MaterialsSteel
- FK6725 Bird Tulip Chair Green by Fabricius & Kastholm Knoll 1990sBy Walter Knoll, Jørgen Kastholm & Preben FabriciusLocated in Aachen, NWThis fine example of the FK6725 Bird office chairs was designed by Jorgen Kastholm & Preben Fabricius in the early 60s and produced by Walter Knoll in the 1990s. The so called "Bir...Category
1990s German Chairs
MaterialsAluminum
- Set of 4 FK 711 Lounge Chairs by Preben Fabricius/Jørgen Kastholm for W. KnollBy Walter Knoll, Jørgen Kastholm & Preben FabriciusLocated in Ludwigslust, DEThis exceptional set of 4 FK 711 lounge chairs, in black leather, is in very good condition. The black leather shows only minimal signs of wear, the stainless steel frames are in per...Category
Vintage 1970s German Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
MaterialsLeather
- FK Leather Bucket ChairsBy Jørgen Kastholm, Preben FabriciusLocated in Napa, CASet of two FK Bucket Chairs designed by Preben Fabricius & Jorgen Kastolm. Original leather covers come with the chairs. Pictured without leather cover...Category
Vintage 1960s French Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
MaterialsAluminum
$3,750 - Danish armchair in white leather and chrome steel, model FK 6725 Fabricius/KnollBy Walter Knoll, Jørgen Kastholm & Preben FabriciusLocated in JOINVILLE-LE-PONT, FRSuperb Scandinavian armchair. Structure with three legs in Chromed Steel, seats and backs in cowhide leather in excellent condition. This piece of furniture comes from the premises o...Category
Early 2000s Danish Scandinavian Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
MaterialsSteel