Konstantin Grcic: Designing for Today

One person that I feel has always pushed the limits of design through form, materials, and concepts is the Munich based designer Konstantin Grcic. From his early designs, like the May day lamp for Flos to his unforgettable Chair One series to his most recent 360 (both produced by Magis) which challenges the way we think an office chair should look and perform. While Grcic has received a lot of attention in Europe and more recently in Japan, he has been somewhat over looked in the USA, but that is about to change with the opening of his first American solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design which opened last week and runs until January 24, 2010.

This may be a perfect excuse to visit the Windy City in the dead of winter.