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Here I am offering one curtain by the brand 'Knoll' designed by Wolf Bauer from the year 1967 from a private collection.

This is a velvety curtain fabric by the German designer Wolf Bauer by the brand Knoll for floor-to-ceiling windows.

Primary fabric: Velvet

Primary fibre: Cotton

Original from the year 1967.

The hanger material is cotton, and the technique used is screen-printing on additional pile (velvet).

Designer: Wolf Bauer

Manufacturer: Knoll

Curtain measurements:

length: 255 cm (currently sewn to 235 cm, with hem of approx. 20 cm); width: 230 cm

Total dimensions: 255 x 230 cm (approx. 6 square metres)

Very rare designer curtains of truly top quality.

Bauer's 1970 exhibition at the Design Centre Stuttgart, Kunst vom Fliessband (Art from the Assembly Line), focused on his fabrics. In the catalogue, critic Ernst Josef Auer concluded that Bauer succeeded in making aesthetic decisions seem practical and necessary, marrying form and function via purely graphic means. That approach may underlie the success of this first Knoll collection, which remains Bauer's key contribution to design history. The Industrial Design magazine named the collection among 1969's 'Best Designs,' and Decorative Art in Modern Interiors showcased Stones in 1970. That same year, the collection was featured in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry's 'Best Design' exhibition and won the New York Industrial Award for Design Excellence.


The Bauer Print Collection is widely regarded as having resuscitated Knoll's brand when the company needed it most. By the mid-1960s, Knoll had become constrained by the very aesthetic that had, for twenty years, made them the harbingers of fresh, corporate-minded modernism. 

Florence Knoll's collaboration with Astrid Sampe at the NK Textilkammare had brought Scandinavian style, and Suzanne Huguenin, head of Knoll's textile division until 1963, had enlisted German printers and designers. Still, the 'Knoll look' seemed stagnant. Florence's departure in 1965 marked a turning point. The following year, Robert Cadwallader, director of marketing (and later vice president), promoted the German-born Barbara Rodes, who since 1962 had worked for Knoll's international textile division, to head the international coordination office. Rodes attracted important designers, including Bauer, Wollner, and Wollner's wife Gretl. Cadwallader also hired Massimo Vignelli, whose advertisements for Bauer's line-in-print and on promotional silk scarves, which both featured collage - further popularised the designs.

Germany - 1960-1969 - Cotton, Velvet

Wolf Bauer - Knoll - curtains

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