Knolling, Pt. I
I've been interested in 'knolling' recently. Knolling is an organizational activity that was devised in 1987 by Andrew Kromelow, a janitor at Frank Gehry's furniture fabrication shop. Gehry was designing chairs for Knoll at the time, and Knoll designs are famously angular in an obsessive and almost otherworldy way. I came upon the idea after doing some research into Tom Sachs, who uses knolling as a component of his studio process. In Part II of this post, I go to the library to do some research, but first I wanted to share some background information about what I found out so far. From the Wikipedia page on Knolling: Knolling is the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90...