grcic miura stool

Konstantin Grcic (*1965) was trained as a cabinet maker at The John Makepeace School (Dorset, England) before studying Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Since setting up his own practice Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) in Munich in 1991, he has developed furniture, products and lighting for some of the leading companies in the design field. Amongst his renowned clients are Authentics, BD Ediciones, ClassiCon, Flos, Magis, Maharam, Muji, Nespresso, Plank, Serafino Zani, Thomas-Rosenthal and Vitra. Many of his products have received international design awards such as the prestigious Compasso d`Oro for his MAYDAY lamp (Flos) in 2001 and the MYTO chair (Plank) in 2011. Work by Konstantin Grcic forms part of the permanent collections of the world´s most important design museums (a.o. MoMA/New York, Centre Pompidou/Paris). Most recently Konstantin Grcic has curated a number of significant design exhibitions such as DESIGN-REAL for The Serpentine Gallery, London (2009), COMFORT for the St.Etienne Design Biennale (2010) and BLACK2 for the Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2010). Solo exhibitions of his work have been shown at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, 2006), Haus der Kunst (Munich, 2006) and The Art Institute of Chicago (2009). The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) appointed Konstantin Grcic "Royal Designer for Industry", in 2010 he was fellow at Villa Massimo in Rome. Design Miami/ arwarded him the title "2010 Designer of the Year".

Plank is a long-established Italian company with headquarter in Ora, province of Bolzano. Its assortment comprises chairs, tables and stools for the appartment as well as furnishings for offices and public areas. Plank was founded in 1893 and, sucessfully combining technology and design, continued to grow ever since. Many of its products are the works of internationally renowed designers like Konstantin Grcic, Naoto Fukasawa, Ludovica + Roberto Palomba, Biagio Cisotti and Sandra Laube. They also received numerous prestigious awards like the Compasso d’Oro ADI, for Myto, or the IF Product Design Award – Gold selection, for the stool Miura, and found their way into the permanent collections of important museums like the Moma in New York, the Design Museum in London and the Art Institute in Chicago.