1957 FLORENCE KNOLL WALNUT DINING TABLE MODEL 303 FOR KNOLL ASSOCIATES

An elegant, clean-lined, bleached walnut dining table designed in 1957 by Florence Knoll for KNOLL ASSOCIATES. A center leaf stores within the table and can increase the table's length by half again to a full 84", providing seating for ten. Listed in KNOLL’s 1957 catalog as model #303 Extension Table. Very good original condition; wear consistent with age and use. Minor surface marks. (Bright spots in the photos are the result of reflected ambient lighting.) FLORENCE KNOLL BASSETT (1917–2019, née Schust) was an American architect, designer, and entrepreneur. She was born in 1917 in Saginaw, Michigan. Orphaned as a child, she was educated at the Kingswood School for girls, one of the Cranbrook Schools cofounded by philanthropists George and Ellen Booth along with Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen in Bloomfield Hills, Massachusetts. Saarinen and his wife Loja all but adopted Knoll; she summered with the family in Finland and befriended their son Eero. Saarinen encouraged Knoll to enroll