A Commitment to Modern Design Since our founding in 1938, design integrity has been our guiding principle as we offer insight into the way business is changing and into what’s possible—now and for the future. We believe good design is good business. Our commitment to modern design has yielded a comprehensive portfolio of furniture products and textiles designed to provide enduring value and help clients shape their workspaces with imagination and vision. We have been recognized as a design leader worldwide. Our products are exhibited in major art museums, with more than 40 pieces in the permanent Design Collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. An Understanding of the Modern Workplace At Knoll, we watch how the modern office is evolving, and we make furniture that responds and adapts to changing needs. We're thinking about the emergence of a new workplace climate, the meaning of new workplace planning models and how ecological principles inform our product designs. We engage in research activities, including independent field studies; collaborations with customers, universities and industry associations; and ongoing dialogue with experts from the fields of technology, architecture, design, organizational behavior, psychology and business management.