The Gradual Lounge was the first piece created especially for Knoll by Boeri, a designer and architect who formerly worked for the influential Italian design firm Gavina SpA, which was acquired by Knoll in 1968.

First produced around 1970, this set dates from early 1973 and has its Gavina/Kiga labels.

Cini Boeri, the Italian architect and industrial designer who designed several showrooms and furniture collections for Knoll, died at her home in Milan on September 9, 2020. She was 96 years old.

Knoll acquired the Gavina Group in 1968 and introduced several Boeri designs to the Knoll portfolio.
In 1970, Boeri introduced its first piece designed specifically for Knoll: the Gradual Lounge, an innovative, modular and dynamically adjustable lounge system. She later recalled that she "tried to do the design in a very strong and strict way. It was a system, a new way of making a fiberglass sofa.

The salon is in very nice condition, both the quality leather and the polyester.

After introducing her designs to an American audience, Knoll stated in a 1976 press release that "she was commissioned by the firm to make the day-to-day design decisions in major European showrooms—France, Germany, and Italy—and to design new showrooms for Knoll in Stuttgart and Munich

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