Konstantin Grcic (*1965 Munich/Germany) initially completed a apprentiship as furniture carpenter before going on to study Industrial design at the Royal College of Art in London. Following his graduation he spent 12 months working with Jasper Morrison before establishing his own bureau Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) in 1991. His work is typified for all by it's simplicity and clarity of form. By Konstantin Grcic's own admission one of the simplest pieces he has designed is his shelving system ES for Moormann. Grcic's most famous design however is his lamp "Mayday" for which he has collected numerous awards and which belongs to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
...Konstantin Grcic's Open Design class... And analogue vernacular technology that has proven its worth in North Africa and the Middle East over time, and which arguably has a place, and an important function, in Europe going forward, that, we'd argue, is very much reflected in and embodied by the Fiasco radiatore developed by Valerio Sampognaro in context of Konstantin Grcic's Open Design class...
...And Konstantin Grcic's 360° stool for Magis, that contemporary re-interpretation of Nelson and Probst's work... And in many regards it is only really in the 21st century that the perch, the half-standing sitting solution has become established in offices, arguably, being popularly revived through works such as, for example, Plint by Kersti Sandin and Lars Bülow for Materia from 2001, or Konstantin Grcic's aforementioned 360° stool for Magis from 2009...
Grcic A Konstantin; A Nurturing; A Reduction There are a great many legends surrounding the origins of Grcic, and while many are centred around the regions today known as München and Wuppertal, the more plausible appears to be that Grcic arose in the days of...
...The Geta Noir table was, technically, premièred in September during London Design Festival 2014 as part of the exhibition Des Formes Utiles, the inaugural exhibition in Galerie kreo's new London base; a further Des Formes Utiles alumni is London Calling by Konstantin Grcic, a project which for us, and based on nothing more reliable than PR photos, is the genuine highlight of Only Wood... Now in recent years Konstantin Grcic may have given the impression that he had broken with his cabinet making roots...
...At Orgatec 2014 that programme has been extended by, amongst other works, new collaborations with Konstantin Grcic and Antonio Citterio and a re-edition of works by Jean Prouvé... The medial highlight will unquestionably be the "Hacker Workshop" featuring Konstantin Grcic's Allstar office chair and Hack table...
