florence-knoll-model-2485-executive-desk
Lot 278
Florence Knoll, Model 2485 Executive Desk
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
With Knoll Associates Inc. label, walnut and walnut veneer with oak secondary, four drawers, raised on chrome plated pedestal base with four legs.

27.5 x 72 x 38 in.

Collection of Everette Lewis, Wilmington, NC. Everette Lewis is a Professor of Film at the University of Southern California.

Florence Knoll believed that the quintessential desk facilitated communication. She labored over the relationship between this table top and its legs to achieve a partners' desk typology for effective collaboration. - Knoll Designed 1961, no longer in production.

Top reset; used estate condition with wear to top including a gouge to one end; wear and rusting to chrome; one corner with heavy use and replaced wood patch.

$1,000 - 2,000