American designer and key figure of the Good Design Movement of the 1950s, Ross F. Littell worked across furniture and textile design with a rigorous, experimental approach. Trained at the Art Center School in Los Angeles and the Pratt Institute in New York, he co-founded a studio with William Katavolos and Douglas Kelley, with whom he designed the iconic T-Chair (1952), exhibited in the Good Design exhibitions at MoMA.

From the mid-1950s onward, Littell pursued an independent career, notably collaborating with Knoll, for which he created innovative graphic textiles such as Criss-Cross (1959). Later based in Denmark and Italy, he developed more experimental works exploring geometry, structure, and light, including his luminars. His work embodies a refined synthesis of function, abstraction, and formal research