Baltimore - Stools

A Pair of Mid Century paper cord and slat seat bar height stools, with very thin iron bases, designed by Arthur Umanoff for Shaver Howard each...

Classic Mid-Century Modern set of four armless tulip, side, dining chairs, for Knoll designed by Eero Saarinen (USA 1910-1961) for Knoll Furniture International in 1956. Features molded white lacquered fiberglass form resting on cast aluminum swivel base with original knoll removable indigo blue cushions. Genuine Knoll chairs and retains the ‘Knoll Associates sticker (320 Park Ave.) and Knoll Associates Inc’ label attached to the underside and stamped BR 51. An elegant and iconic design with its distinctive tulip shape. This time-honored example of Mid-Century Modern design can be incorporated into virtually any decorating style for additional seating in any room of your home or office effortlessly. The stickers applied to Knoll furniture pieces are helpful in determining the date and authenticity of a particular piece. In the late ‘40s and early ‘50s Knoll occupied showrooms on Madison Avenue. After 1961 Knoll’s offices were located at 320 Park Ave., and in 1970 they moved to 745 Fifth Ave. The logo on this set identifies the chairs for the time period after 1961 and before 1970. Measurements: 31.89? Tall x 17.33? Wide x 20,08? Deep (the base is 17.3 in diameter) About Florence Knoll (Designer) Architect, furniture designer, interior designer, entrepreneur — Florence Knoll had a subtle but profound influence on the course of mid-century American modernism. Dedicated to functionality and organization, and never flamboyant, Knoll shaped the ethos of the post-war business world with her polished, efficient design and skillfully realized office plans. Knoll had perhaps the most thorough design education of any of her peers. Florence Schust was orphaned at age 12, and her guardian sent her to Kingswood, a girl’s boarding school that is part of the Cranbrook Educational Community in suburban Detroit. Her interest in design brought her to the attention of Eliel Saarinen, the Finnish architect and head of the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Saarinen and his wife took the talented child under their wing, and she became close to their son, the future architect Eero Saarinen. While a student at the Academy, Florence befriended artist-designer Harry Bertoia and Charles and Ray Eames. Later, she studied under three of the Bauhaus masters who emigrated to the United States. She worked as an apprentice in the Boston architectural offices of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe taught her at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1941, she met Hans Knoll, whose eponymous furniture company was just getting off the ground. They married in 1946, and her design sense and his business skills soon made Knoll Inc. a leading firm in its field. Florence signed up the younger Saarinen as a designer, and would develop pieces by Bertoia, Mies and the artist Isamu Noguchi. Her main work came as head of the Knoll Planning Group...

The Little Tulip® barstool for Artifort…. as if designer Pierre Paulin had premonitions of Flower Power. Elegance through and through. Delicate, flowing, ...

Classic Mid-Century Modern swivel “Tulip” stool designed by Eero Saarinen (USA 1910-1961) for Knoll Furniture International in 1956. Features original bei...

This sturdy tripod walnut stool has a generous seat with a worn red velvet insert. The base is a plain hexagonal column mounted on three wavy legs, the column concealing the iron scr...

This sturdy utilitarian kitchen stool or end table has been used to support a large bucket or other vessel which has left its imprint on the top. A hand-cut exposed dovetailed drawer...

This is a charming pair of stools or end tables that will be found useful all-over the house. In old green and cream paint.   

A plain and simple three-footed swivel-seat piano stool in recent white paint. The seat adjusts from 18" to 24".

A very useful pair of kitchen stools or end tables featuring layers of beautiful worn paint

A charming pair of wooden stools featuring original worn red and white paint, which would also function well as end tables.