Platner Collection Designed by Warren Platner for Knoll
In 1966, the Platner Collection captured the “decorative, gentle, graceful” shapes that were beginning to infiltrate the modern vocabulary. The iconic dining table, chair, side tables, which create a focal point for any dining room, are created by welding curved steel rods to circular frames, simultaneously serving as structure and ornament.
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With his experience in the firm of Eero Saarinen and Associates, it is not surprising that the mantel for the second generation of pedestal and wire furniture fell on the creative shoulders of Warren Platner. Reflecting a dramatic shift in cultural values, modernism became more expressive in the 1960s. Platner felt there was an opportunity to merge the competing aesthetics of the time.
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