Charles Pollock

After graduating from Pratt Institute and working with George Nelson, Charles Pollock assembled a portfolio of designs and presented them to Florence Knoll. Planning Unit member Vincent Cafiero saw promise in a leather and steel lounge chair and encouraged Pollock to keep working on the design. The 657 Lounge showed the young designer’s precision handling of line, form, and materials. He followed with the Pollock Executive Chair, a true mid-century classic.