Mr. Diebboll (pronounced DEE-bull) was a longtime member of the firm Michael Graves & Associates, which he joined in 1984, serving as a principal designer and directing its New York office for 17 years. He worked on dozens of projects for Mr. Graves, known for his allegiance to a purist form of modernism and the line of consumer products he designed for Target. In 1997 Mr. Diebboll found a new outlet for his talents when Sandy Davis, the director of the piano-restoration company Klavierhaus, asked him to design a 21st-century piano as part of a course she was developing at Bard College in 1997.
Over the years, Mr. Diebboll produced hundreds of drawings and prints. None of his designs were actually built, but his artwork was exhibited in galleries and museums and published in “The Art of the Piano” (David R. Godine, 2000).
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