Cross Check™ Chair by Knoll: a timeless icon
09/10/2018
In 1990, designer Frank Gehry developed a chair for Knoll that, even today, can easily be defined as one of the brand's most creative and iconic pieces.
The chair, known as the Cross Check ™ Chair, owes its fortune to the extraordinary exclusivity of the ribbon-like shapes, which naturally remind the viewer of classic apple crates made of wood.
Gehry himself says that he was inspired by the surprising strength of the apple crates he found find lying around in his home and played on as a child.
Hence the idea that led him to create this chair, together with other wooden furniture such as tables, tables or small armchairs, which are part of his thoroughly original collection of bentwood furniture, featuring the same design method.
The exclusivity of the chair draws its strength from the sculptural approach with which has always been a feature of Gehry's architectural creations, thus allowing the furniture to echo the same style used when designing buildings.
In fact, the entire collection consists of bentwood furniture formed of the same incredibly lightweight slender maple strips.
The whole effort is grounded on a strong creative basis, transcending the conventions of style by exploring, as the great modernists did, the essential challenge of deriving form from function.
Cross Check™ Chair is therefore a perfect example of this approach and, despite its years, remains unsurprisingly a Timeless Icon from the Knoll collection.
