Florence Knoll Bassett (Saginaw, Michigan, 1917 - 2019, Coral Gables, Florida) "Oval 96 table". Created for Knoll in 1961. Chromed steel and marble table. It comes with three leather and chromed steel chairs. Circa 1960. Measurements: 73,5 x 189 x 106 cm. American architect and furniture designer, who studied with Mies van der Rohe and Eliel Saarinen. She trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she became a protégée of Eero Saarinen and she graduated in architecture from the Armour Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1941. She worked for a short period of time alongside leaders of the Bauhaus movement, such as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Wallace K. Harrison. In 1946 she married Hans Knoll, and they formed Knoll Associates. As a pioneer of Knoll’s Planning Unit, she revolutionised the structure of interior space with her idea of "total design". In 2002, Florence Knoll was awarded the prestigious National Medal of Arts for her extraordinary contributions to architecture and design.