Knoll Chermayeff Storage Takes the 1961 Credenza Home

Knoll Chermayeff Storage is a five piece collection by architect Sam Chermayeff that takes Florence Knoll's 1961 credenza out of the office and into the home. The pieces are a bookcase, a bar cabinet, a console, a side table and a coffee table.

Five Pieces Cut From One Credenza

Florence Knoll's low credenzas arrived in 1961 as office furniture, built to replace heavy desks and clunky filing cabinets, and Wallpaper reports that she worked from the minimalism of her former mentor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Chermayeff keeps the rigor of that proportion and stretches it across new forms for different rooms. The Knoll announcement of September 23, 2026 describes the result as bold, visual precision paired with new forms and colors.

Each of the five pieces answers a different job at home. The bookcase and the console carry things, the bar cabinet holds bottles, and the side table and coffee table sit at the edge of a sofa. The Knoll Chermayeff Storage launch coverage lays out the same lineup piece by piece.

Deep Cherry Red Where the 1961 Originals Had None

Color is the clearest break from the source. According to Wallpaper, the collection offers intense colors that were not on the 1961 versions, including a brilliant deep cherry red.

That makes the sixty five year gap visible in the finish alone: the credenza started as a quiet office fixture and now comes in a color that fills a room.