25
years
grcic
for
classi-
con
The collaboration be-
tween Konstantin Grcic
and ClassiCon started
in 1991. From the be-
ginning, their common
ground was mutual ap-
preciation and open-
mindedness with regard
to the character of the
designs that Grcic soon
began to develop. It takes
courage to juxtapose a
collection characterised
by the iconic furniture of
classic modernism with
a voluminous table such
as Pallas, made of fold-
ed sheet metal, or to be-
lieve in the Chaos chair,
which seemed to break
with all unwritten rules
of
form,
proportions
and comfort, although
it would soon prove
the opposite: a comfort-
able chair which, in its
radicalness, also repre-
sented a liberation for
ClassiCon and a move-
ment towards a new,
strong and contempo-
rary design language.
The collaboration hence
changed both Grcic and
ClassiCon. For Grcic, it
was a maturation pro-
cess, allowing him to
bid farewell to the tra-
ditional formal canon;
for ClassiCon, it entailed
the
opening
of
the
collection to the avant-
garde, allowing other
designers to follow suit.
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