Magis konstantin grcic biography

One of the greatest designers of our time, Konstantin Grcic (Munich, 1965) can be described as a designer of synthesis. His objects and furnishings, exercises in innovation played out on the ground of control and awareness, balance a sense of opportunity – in the choice of materials, spatial relations, evoked gestures – with new forms far from any nostalgic or citationist temptation.

Pure without being chaste, geometrically clean-cut but without sculptural pretensions, contemporary and timeless at the same time, his projects speak to a heterogeneous public who recognises his ability to understand the demands of everyday life.

A prolific designer yet resistant to bulimia, Grcic has expressed his best potential by working at the service of industry, without, however, shying away from shifts of scale or referents. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has worked several times with the world of limited editions, and with international cultur