Atlanta Magazine's HOME Reprints Art Papers' Knoll Transcripts

Atlanta Magazine's HOME Winter 2015 issue features excerpts from interviews with designers and other notable figures who contributed to the first 40 years of Knoll's history. "The Knoll Transcripts," compiled by Margot Weller, was first published by Art Papers, the Atlanta-based nonprofit for art and culture.

Richard Saul Wurman, Massimo Vignelli and Christine Rae initiated the oral history in 1979, conducting interviews with some 60 individuals, including the company's founders and major designers, its executives, clients and factory operators. Until their complete publication in 2015, the oral history was largely forgotten, appearing only in excerpted form in the canonical book Knoll Design, published in 1981.

"The Knoll brand made modernism happen in America, not just in museums but in people's homes," wrote Victoria Camblin, editor at Art Papers. Camblin is quoted in the Atlanta Magazine's HOME reprint.

Atlanta Magazine's HOME included portions of interviews with Harry Bertoia, Peter Blake, Marcel Breuer, Gordon Bunschaft, Florence Knoll, Herbert Matter, George Nelson and Richard Schultz. Archival images and contemporary photography were included with Knoll's permission.