How did you scale your design perspective down into furniture? It wasn’t so much a ‘scaling down’. Rather than making a product, it was an opportunity to express my position in terms of materials, silhouettes and forms. Adjaye designed the furniture collection as he was working on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (rendering shown above). Photo 2 of 9 in David Adjaye for Knoll by Diana Budds

David Adjaye for Knoll

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How did you scale your design perspective down into furniture?

It wasn’t so much a ‘scaling down’. Rather than making a product, it was an opportunity to express my position in terms of materials, silhouettes and forms.

Adjaye designed the furniture collection as he was working on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (rendering shown above).