How Architect David Adjaye Explores Design At A Human Scale

The U.K.-based, Tanzania-born architect's new designs for Knoll are about "atmosphere as an emotional space for human beings."

Though architect David Adjaye earned his stripes designing masterful structures, he has turned his eye to a more intimate scale in recent years, creating furniture and now fabrics. In his first foray into textiles, Adjaye worked with the modern design firm Knoll and the Smithsonian on a line of upholstery, draperies, and wallcoverings that, like his structures, merge history and abstraction.