German based designer Konstantin Grcic will launch the chair Monza, a new chair for Italian brand Plank, at the Milan Design Week.
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The new Myto chair by Konstantin Grcic will be launched at the Milan Design Week in April. Returning David Report readers maybe remember my earlier post about the Myto chair when it first was presented back in July. Myto will be produced by furniture manufacturer Plank in collaboration with chemical company Basf. Myto is made entirely from the engineering plastic Ultradur® High Speed (polybutylene terephthalate – PBT) which has an extraordinary flowability.
Do we need another chair? Maybe this time… The new cantilever chair by Konstantin Grcic explores posibilities of both material and form. With references back to the early years of the modernism Grcic is presenting one of the most interesting chairs for a long time.
The exhibition during Milan Design Week will take place at the Triennale Design Museum.
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Myto chair is developed by the highly acclaimed German designer Konstantin Grcic in collaboration with the Italian furniture producer Plank and BASF. The chair is made entirely from the engineering plastic Ultradur® High Speed (polybutylene terephthalate – PBT) which has an extraordinary flowability.
The project was started in late summer 2006, when BASF invited four renowned designers, including internationally acclaimed German designer Konstantin Grcic, to a joint workshop – Universal Days – in Ludwigshafen. The aim was to explain the creative potential of BASF’s engineering plastics – the “ultras”. The properties of the material were demonstrated to the designers using everyday examples. This demonstration didn’t consist only of graphs and figures but explained practical properties such as rigidity, strength, viscosity, thermoforming abilities and the mutual dependencies of these properties.
During the following months the experts at BASF and Konstantin Grcic [KGID] developed the idea of using the special properties of Ultradur® High Speed for an industrially manufactured design product. They soon agreed that a chair would be the greatest challenge for a project such as this – not just in terms of manufacturing, but also in regard to the design. Chairs are design icons, but they are still everyday objects. Konstantin Grcic believes that chairs should not only fulfill a purpose – they also have a personality. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the most outstanding architects of the 20th century, once said that it is more difficult to design a chair than a complete building.
Thanks to MocoLoco.
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German designer Konstantin Grcic has been the “guest of honour” at the Stockholm Furniture fair which ends today. Konstantin Grcic presented a nice exhibition with the theme of an artificial garden at the entrance of the show including some of his most successful products like Chair-one for Magis, the Mayday lamp for Flos and the Miura barstool for Plank. Brackens were dibbled in his containers for Authentics and gave an overall green feeling to the exhibition. According to Konstantin Grcic the idea was to offer visitors a moment of tranquillity in a warm and satisfying setting.
“The sensation of living plants in this installation is a new element for me to work with.The plants will create a living oasis in the middle of the busy crowd,” explains Konstantin Grcic.
In previous the lounge in Stockholm International Fairs’ entrance hall has been created by Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola, French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and the Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa. A nice list of the most influential designers of the present.
Foto: Magnus Skoglöf/Stockholmsmässan
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Well-known German designer Konstantin Grcic has an exhibition going until April 22nd at the Museum of design in Zürich called “This side up”. It explores the design processes behind 50 of his products up to today. It is an interesting theme to show all the work behind products that at a first glimpse might seem simple. I’m probably not the only one who find the word design a bit overused… Everything is on display in over-sized boxes which are open for the exhibitors to look into. The exhibiton includes products from companies such as Authentics, Flos, Iittala, Krups, Magis, Moroso and Muji.
Vernissage TV has an interview in three parts with Konstantin Grcic concerning his exhibiton “This side up” well worth looking at and listening to:
Konstantin Grcic interview one, Konstantin Grcic interview two, Konstantin Grcic interview three
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