Platner dining chair

Name: Platner dining chair
Brand: Knoll

Warren Platner's 1966 collection for Knoll transformed industrial steel wire into a shimmering, graceful architecture of seating. The Platner dining chair — also known as the Platner side chair — carries the collection's signature form at the dining table.

Vertical steel wire rods welded to circular horizontal and edge forming rods.
Moulded fibreglass shell and foam cushion; cushion attaches to seat with Velcro.

Available in a variety of fabrics and leathers.

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Designer

Warren Platner

Warren Platner studied at Cornell University, graduating in 1941 with a degree in architecture. He went on to work with legendary architects Raymond Loewy, Eero Saarinen, and I. M. Pei before opening his own architecture practice. Platner made notable architectural contributions throughout his career, including the Georg Jensen Design Center and the Windows on the World restaurant in the World Trade Center ― both in New York City. It was his furniture collection for Knoll, however, that earned Platner worldwide renown.

Originally introduced by Knoll in 1966, the Platner Collection is an icon of modern furniture. Platner personally formulated the production techniques for the complicated designs with each chair requiring over a thousand welds and more than one hundred cylindrical steel rods. Knoll also introduced an executive private office collection designed by Platner.

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Knoll

Knoll is where modern furniture history was made, and it's an American story from the very start. Founded in New York in 1938 by Hans Knoll, the company was shaped from 1943 onward by Florence Knoll, an architect and designer in her own right, who built Knoll's now-legendary partnerships with the era's leading modernists.

It's through Knoll that pieces like Eero Saarinen’s Womb and Tulip chairs, Harry Bertoia’s wire chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair and Warren Platner's intricate wire collection became modern design icons, alongside Marcel Breuer's Wassily and Cesca designs, which joined the collection through Knoll's 1968 acquisition of Gavina. These aren't reissues: they're the genuine article, still made to the same exacting standard today, ready to anchor a considered home rather than sit behind a museum rope.

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Platner dining chair

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Designer

Warren Platner

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Knoll

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