Warren Platner for Knoll Stools. Pair available, priced individually.

Warren Platner for Knoll Stools, deesigned in 1962 – pair available, priced individually.

Warren Platner worked with both of the industrial and organic design giants before turning his attention to steel wire furniture, for which he devised the structure and production method.

Requiring as many as 1,000 welds and crafted out of wire and space, the stool demonstrates Platner’s belief that there is room in modernism “for the kind of decorative, gentle, graceful design that appeared in a period style like Louis XV.”

Constructed of metal components that are finished in bright nickel with a clear lacquer protective coating, the stool features a clear plastic extrusion ring surrounding the base to protect floors.