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The company is the licensed manufacturer of furniture designed by architects and designers such as Harry Bertoia, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, Florence Knoll, Frank Gehry, Charles Gwathmey, Maya Lin, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, and Lella and Massimo Vignelli, [3] under the company's KnollStudio division. Over 40 Knoll designs can ...
Albany International Airport has direct access to I-87 and New York State Route 7 via Albany-Shaker Road, a 3.3-mile (5.3 km), four-lane boulevard. On August 14, 2018, New York state officials announced [ 31 ] the new I-87 Exit 3 which will provide direct access to Albany International Airport.
Hans Knoll was born in Germany in 1914. His father was a modern furniture manufacturer, who supported the Nazi regime. [1] Perhaps because of his father's views, or perhaps because he wanted to follow many other German modernists who had emigrated, Knoll left Germany in 1936, and first moved to England. [1]
Built 1614 By the Dutch Explorers Christiaensen and Block. First Trading Center Established in New York State. 15: From The Ground: Port Rd., Nr. Administration Bldg. Albany: Glenn Curtiss Began the First Long Distance Airplane Flight Albany to New York May 29, 1910. 16: General John Burgoyne: Plaza, Broadway at Foot of State St. Albany
Herman Miller was founded in 1905 as the Star Furniture Co. [3] In 1919, it was renamed the Michigan Star Furniture Co. under then-president Dirk Jan De Pree. De Pree and his father-in-law, Herman Miller, (born Harm Mulder on 7 September 1867 in Hoogemeeden, Groningen, Netherlands) [ 4 ] [ 5 ] acquired most of the company's shares in 1923 and ...
Reflecting Albany's status as New York's capital, 17 of the 41 extant buildings listed individually, more than one-third of that total, have been used for governmental purposes at some point. [ note 7 ] The city government is responsible for three of those, its school district for two and the federal government one (the Old Post Office ), with ...
The history of Albany, New York from 1860 to 1900 begins in 1860, prior to the start of the Civil War, and ends in 1900. The Albany Lumber District was home to the largest lumber market in the nation in 1865. [1] While the key to Albany's economic prosperity in the 19th century was transportation, industry and business also played a role.
New York: PowerHouse Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1576878606 [51] A Life in Chairs with Industrial Designer Don Chadwick. Interview Magazine, 2018 [52] Olivares, Jonathan. Don Chadwick Photography 1961–2005. Barcelona: Apartamento Press, 2019. ISBN 978-84-09-11610-2 [53] Georgacopoulos, A., Olivares, J. The ECAL Manual of Style: How to best teach ...