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Knolling

The process of arranging different objects so that they are at 90-degree angles from each other, and then often photographing them from above, but could also be used as a method for organizing, packing, and arranging more broadly.

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Origin

Named for Andrew Kromelow, a janitor at architect Frank Gehry's furniture store, after he would go through the store and find any tools that had been left out at the end of the day, rearranging the tools on a flat surface so they were at right angles to one another. He called this "knolling", because it reminded him of the angles in Florence Knoll's furniture pieces.