Magis Chair One designed by Konstantin Grcic

Magis Chair One designed by Konstantin Grcic

 

Konstantin Grcic (*1965) was trained as a cupboard producer at The John Makepeace School (Dorset, England) prior to examining Style at the Royal College of Art in London. Considering that establishing up his very own method Konstantin Grcic Industrial Style (KGID) in Munich in 1991, he has actually established furnishings, products and lights for some of the leading business in the design area. Several of his items have actually gotten international design honors such as the prestigious Compasso d 'Oro for his MAYDAY lamp (Flos) in 2001 and the MYTO chair (Plank) in 2011.Most recently Konstantin Grcic has curated a lot of substantial design exhibits such as DESIGN-REAL for The Serpentine Gallery, London (2009), COMFORT for the St. Etienne Style Biennale (2010) and BLACK2 for the Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2010). In 2012 he accountabled for the exhibition style of the German Pavillon at the 13th Design Biennale in Venice. Solo events of his work have actually been revealed at the Gallery Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, 2006), Haus der Kunst (Munich, 2006) and The Art Institute of Chicago (2009). The Royal Culture for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Business (RSA) selected Konstantin Grcic "Royal Developer for Sector", in 2010 he was fellow at Suite Massimo in Rome. Layout Miami / arwarded him the title "2010 Developer of the Year". Konstantin Grcic specifies function in human terms, incorporating formal strictness with considerable psychological skill and humor. Each of his products is characterized by a cautious study into the past of layout and design and his interest for innovation and materials. Known for pared-down items, Grcic is typically called a minimalist but the designer himself likes to speak of simpleness.Chair OneChair ONE is created just like a soccer: a variety of flat planes constructed at angles to each various other, developing the three-dimensional form. I think my technique was a blend of naivety and bluntness. Given the possibility to collaborate with aluminium spreading I believed that I must defeat the means. The more we worked with the models the more we discovered to comprehend the architectural reasoning behind what we were doing. What began as a basic sketch, a series of cardboard models, models, is now an actual chair.Man Machine MAN MACHINE is a collection of furnishings items developed for Galerie kreo in Paris. Like the CHAMPS tables, my previous job for kreo, I based the entire collection on one product (and method): glass. Glass is definitely not the most noticeable product for making furniture. Besides being massive and cool, there is a common preconception about its fragility. If you believe concerning it, glass is one of the most frequently used structure products in contemporary architecture. The suggestion of MAN MACHINE (named after Kraftwerk's 1978 cd)began to produce when we started introducing moving elements to the glass furniture. The motion is accomplished by utilizing industrial gas pistons, a type of magic muscle. The performance and leverage of each gas piston is tailored baseding on the exact activity required. On the CHAISE (chair), the piston is made use of to modify the position of the backrest, on the round TABLE_M the piston makes the table leading fold away. The big TABLE_XL has actually four harmonized telescopic pistons which enable the table top to be cranked up or down. The large boxes (CRATE) have pistons raising the glass cover, guide SHELF includes pistons pushing wooden blocks like sprung bookends. All pieces are constructed of toughened up glass jointed along with silicone glue. The MAN MACHINE collection is produced in a minimal version of 8 items each.