Muecke New Additions

Jonathan Muecke has expanded his collection for Knoll with a Lounge Chair, Ottoman, Coffee Table, and Side Table – four new pieces that celebrate the natural beauty of wood and the rhythm of repetition.

The rigorous yet inviting forms of Jonathan Muecke’s new pieces are the result of deep materials exploration and getting the most out of the least. By celebrating all aspects of wood, even the end grain, he expresses the internal logic of the material. “Only when something has internal logic does it have a chance at external relationships with other things,” says the designer.

In his art practice, Muecke explores the stabilizing effects of repetition. For these furniture pieces, he developed a distinct joinery system – rounded wood pieces pass on adjacent planes and connect where they meet – that grounds and unifies the collection. Uniform dowel sizing reinforces clarity of form and material.

By often using just a single material and by reiterating an object in various scales and proportions, Jonathan Muecke’s process of reduction and abstraction functions as a kind of freedom. As a result, his work resists standard classification, existing somewhere between design, art, and architecture.

Based in Minnesota, USA, Muecke is a trained architect. He interned with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, and completed his degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan before establishing his own practice in Minneapolis.