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Knoll Textiles Vintage Herbert Matter Eames Era

You are bidding on a group of rare vintage original Knoll Textile samples and ephemera with graphic designs by Herbert Matter for Knoll including a Knoll Textiles Business Reply Envelope , a folded advertisement for the Knoll Textile Kit (black ink on glossy stock, and a color order form the Knoll Textile Kit , and a 1953 Knoll print advertisement designed by Herbert Matter to promote the Bertoia wire chair.

The textile designers are not credited on the fabric samples, but color and other info is printed on the back. Designers for Knoll Textiles included the Swedish textile designer Astrid Sampe , Marianne Strengell of Cranbrook, United Nations architect Sven Markelius , Noemi Raymond , an instructor at Frank Lloyd Wright's school at Taliesin, textile designer Angelo Testa and Swedish ceramics designer Stig Lindberg . Dates unknown - c. 1950s.

- Very rare and b eautiful examples of post war graphics, textile designs and colors.

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Herbert Matter (1907 - 1984)

The Swiss designer Herbert Matter , born in Engelberg , Switzerland , in 1907, was a design consultant to Knoll from 1946 to 1966. Matter designed the Knoll logo (on the fabric swatches in this auction), numerous print advertisements (including the 1953 print advertisement in this auction for a Harry Bertoia Knoll chair), posters and Knoll's catalog.

Herbert Matter studied painting at the Ecole des BeauxArts in Geneva and and at the Academie Moderne in Paris with Fernand Leger and Ozenfant . He worked with A. M. Cassandre , and Le Corbusier . In Zurich , he designed posters for the Swiss National Tourist Office and Swiss resorts.

He emigrated to the United States in 1936, designing graphic design layouts for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and other magazines. Matter also worked with Charles and Ray Eames in the 1940s, photographing many of their experimental chair and furniture designs. His work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Fine Art, The Yale University School of Art and Architecture, the Kunsthalle Museum , Zurich and the Museum of Modern Art in New York .

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" . . .in 1947, Knoll Textiles officially launched its first collection in a newly designed showroom on East 65th Street in New York City . When it was formed, this textile company was unique in the American commercial furniture industry, uniting, for the first time, production of furniture with production of fabrics.

Florence Schust had become partners with Hans Knoll as both his wife and head of the Knoll Associates' cutting edge design practice. According to Florence Knoll Bassett, the origins of the textile division lay in what she called "necessity" derived from the lack of "suitable fabrics available in the postwar period."

Bassett commented on the company's founding: "It became apparent to me that suitable textiles were not available...The current vogue in the textile showrooms was brocade and chintz with cabbage roses. I began to use fabrics from British tailors."

The initial collection was designed by what The New York Times called "half a dozen of the most talented textile designers of this country and Europe ," referred to by Knoll as "The International Group." It included Swedish textile designer Astrid Sampe , Marianne Strengell of Cranbrook, United Nations architect Sven Markelius , Noemi Raymond , an instructor at Frank Lloyd Wright's school at Taliesin, textile designer Angelo Testa and Swedish ceramics designer Stig Lindberg .

The combined talents of this group resulted in a radically unique collection of upholstery, casement and drapery textiles ranging from upholstery weaves inspired by suiting fabrics to delicate geometric prints. The aesthetic was quite different to that seen in ...

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