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In designing for Knoll, Koolhaas joins the ranks of such architectural legends as Mies van der Rohe, who made Knoll's signature Barcelona chair, and Frank Gehry, who designed the ribbon-like Hat Trick chair. ''It's an issue of different speeds," Koolhaas said. ''You can put a great fashion show together in two months, you can put a furniture collection together in a year and a half, and we can do a great building in five years. For me that is the only difference." Yet, the winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize acknowledges he had
''an early puritanical position that I would never do design." Now, he said, ''basically, I grew up, and didn't need to have this repression anymore." ''It's deeply satisfying, the quality of designing small things," he added.
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