~~~Longtime area resident Ben Hazelton plans to reopen Ben’s Bullpen around July 1. ~~It could cost up to $500,000 to remove asbestos products from LO Junior High School and Webber Elementary School. ~~~Dan Bratten of Lapeer used a compound bow on the lake near Fairview/Sheron and claimed a 34-inch, 24-pound carp with one arrow. Hats and head coverings can no longer be worn in school. ~~The new school district dress code includes banning all gang identifying symbols, chains and all other items determined by administration to be unsafe, illegal and inappropriate. Village officials first adopted the TIP plan in May 1985. ~~A joint meeting of members of the Lake Orion Village Council and Downtown Development Authority are considering extending the life of the Tax Increment Financing program for another 10 years. Looking Back was obtained from back issues of The Lake Orion Review. For the past two years, its gym classes have been co-educational and separate teams in all sports are offered to both sexes. Lake Orion school district isn’t worried. ~~A law, pending approval by Congress, will require elementary through high school gym classes be co-educational. Opponents are talking about a petition drive to allow for a vote on the rezoning question. ~~The Orion Township Board has OK’d a petition by Ramco to rezone property at M-24/Clarkston Road to allow a shopping center. ~~~For its first 101 years, ‘savings? was the middle word in Oxford Savings Bank’s name. ~~Sharing the valedictorian honors at LOHS this year are Linda Carter of Morgan Road, Alisa Clapp of Eaton Gate Road and Scott Furney of Ferndale Street. ~~LOHS students attending the Boy’s State conference at Michigan State University include Kevin Miller, Jeff Osborne alternative representatives Tony Agro and Rob Blume. ~~~New officers for the American Legion are Jack McCarthy, commander Chuck Cessna, senior vice Larry Denis junior vice Russ Hurley, adjutant George Beaver, finance Rob Stevenson, chaplain Pay Haynes, sgt. ~~Linda Purvis, an employee of the school district for 26 years, is retiring as Pine Tree Elementary School’s principal. Knoll retired as Knoll president in 1960, but remained with the company as the director of design until 1965 when she retired completely.~~A serious accident at the Indianwood/Baldwin/Coats intersection involving a gravel truck has increased debate over ways to correct the junction and the routing of gravel trucks in the township. Hanging cabinets have glass shelves, sliding doors and drop down fronts that can be used as bars. Dressers and desks are all square in design but never lack for quality. She mixed woods and metals to great effect and added laminates as they became popular. Her American interpretation of minimalist, rationalist design theories is clearly evident in Knoll"s storage pieces. Florence Knoll herself designed chairs, sofas, tables and casegoods during the 1950s, many of which remain in the Knoll line to this day. When Hans Knoll died in a car accident in 1955, Florence Knoll took over operation of the company. Some of these furniture designs would become design icons of the 20th century and have remained in the Knoll line for decades due to their timeless design. A new furniture factory was established in Pennsylvania and dealers in Knoll"s furniture were carefully added over the next several years.įlorence Knoll felt architects should contribute their design ability to furniture as well. They married in 1946, she became a full business partner and together they founded Knoll Associates. With her architectural background and design flair, she succeeded. In 1943, Florence Schust convinced Hans she could help bring in business to his company even in America"s wartime economy by expanding into interior design by working with architects. In 1938, Hans Knoll founded his furniture company by that name in New York. Knoll also received a bachelor"s degree in architecture from Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1941 and briefly worked with leaders of the Bauhaus movement, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and the American modernist, Wallace K. She graduated from the Kingswood School before studying at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (both institutions are located on the same campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan). She was born in Saginaw, Michigan as Florence Schust and is known in familiar circles simply as"Shu". Florence Knoll Bassett (born May 24, 1917) is an American architect and furniture designer who studied under Mies van der Rohe and Eliel Saarinen.
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