Herbert H. Schultes, 1938
Herbert H. Schultes completed his
engineering and design studies in Munich.
From 1985 to 2000 he was Chief Designer
of Siemens AG and later Managing Director
of Siemens Design und Messe GmbH.
As a member of various institutions he had
a decisive influence on the importance of
German design. In 2001 he was honoured
for his work with the ‘Bundespreis für
Förderer des Designs’ federal award and
received the ‘Verdienstkreuz am Bande
der Bundesrepublik Deutschland’ cross
of merit. Herbert H. Schultes today works
in his own studio in Munich where he
develops kitchen systems for bulthaup and
designs furniture. orbis
Victoria Wilmotte, 1985
Victoria Wilmotte was born in 1985 in Paris, where she studied interior design. She later
earned her master’s degree in product design at the Royal College of Art in London. She
returned to Paris in 2008 and opened her design studio, where she still lives and works today.
Here, she created designs for the Tools Gallery in Paris and works for her first solo show in
2009 in the Brussels Gallery Pierre Bergé et Associés. In addition to product design and
editions, she also deals with custom-tailored concepts. pli series
Otto Blümel, 1881 – 1973
Born in Augsburg, Otto Blümel studied
architecture at the Technical University of
Munich and then took up painting. From
1907 to 1914 he was director of the design
department at the Vereinigte Werkstätten
für Kunst im Handwerk in Munich, at the
time a pioneering force in interior design.
Otto Blümel’s most famous piece is the
Nymphenburg coat rack, which is still stored
in the Vereinigte Werkstätten archives today.
nymphenburg
Eckart Muthesius
1904 – 1989
Following his studies at the Associated
State School for Applied Arts in Berlin and
the London Polytechnic, Eckart Muthesius
became a master student in the studio of his
father, Hermann Muthesius, founder of the
Deutscher Werkbund. In 1929 Muthesius
met Prince Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur
in Oxford, the later Maharajah of Indore,
who commissioned him to build and furnish
his palace ‘Manik Bagh’. Completed four
years later, the palace was a masterpiece
of the Art Deco style. When the war broke
out in 1939, he was forced to leave India
and return to Berlin, where he worked as a
freelance architect. banu, mandu, satish,
usha
Eileen Gray, 1878 – 1976
Coming from an aristocratic Irish-Scottish
family, Eileen Gray went to London and Paris
to study architecture and design. She first
made a name for herself as a leading designer
of lacquered walls and decorative panels.
With her theories on design and architecture
she left an indelible mark on our ideas about
living. Today she is still considered the epit-
ome of Modernism and is the only woman
whose name is mentioned in the same breath
as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Mar-
cel Breuer. Her tubular steel furniture designs,
at the time revolutionary, have become
classics. The high point of her career was
her appointment to the Royal Society of Art
in London in 1972 as ‘Royal Designer for
Industry’. The Museum of Modern Art added
her legendary Adjustable Table E 1027 to its
permanent design collection in 1978. In the
1970s Eileen Gray began working with Zeev
Aram to put her furniture, rugs and lamps
into series production. In 1973, she granted
the worldwide rights to manufacture and
distribute her designs to Aram Designs Ltd.,
London. The Vereinigte Werkstätten, from
which ClassiCon emerged in 1990, already
produced and distributed Eileen Gray designs
under licence. Her lifetime achievement was
honoured in 2013 with a large solo exhibition
at Centre Pompidou. The production of the
movie ‘Price of Desire’ and the documentary
film ‘Gray matters’ (both 2014) follow the
success of this exhibition. Her most famous
architectural design, the Maison en Bord
de Mer E 1027 was reopened to the public
in 2015. adjustable table e 1027, aixia,
bar stool no. 1, bar stool no. 2, bibendum,
bonaparte, brick screen, castellar, day
bed, de stijl, double x, folding screen,
jean, lota, lou perou, menton, monte
carlo, non conformist, occasional table,
pailla, petite coiffeuse, rivoli, roattino,
roquebrune, tube light and the rugs
blue marine, bonaparte, castellar,
centimetre, kilkenny, roquebrune,
st. tropez, wendingen
Barber Osgerby, 1969
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby studied at
the Royal College of Art in London, already
worked together during their study time and
established Barber Osgerby in 1996. In 1998,
they presented their first piece in Milan, the
‘Loop Table’. Many successful products for
renowned companies followed suit. In 2001,
Barber and Osgerby founded the ‘Universal’
design studio, which today is recognised
worldwide as one of the most innovative
design consulting agencies for architecture,
interior and exhibition design. The collaboration
with ClassiCon began in 2004. For the 2012
Olympic Games they were appointed to design
the London Olympic Torch.
paris, saturn
Sandra Lindner, 1974
Sandra Lindner received extensive technical
training in working with metal and textiles
in the course of three traineeships. Studies
at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg
culminated in a degree as industrial designer
and were the logical continuation of her
training. In 1996 she opened her own office
for design ‘Lindner im Norden’. With her
most recent ceramics works Sandra Lindner
establishes the context between movement
and form. selene
Konstantin Grcic, 1965
Konstantin Grcic was born in Munich,
Germany, in 1965. After training as a cabinet
maker at The John Makepeace School in
England he studied design at the Royal
College of Art in London. He set up his own
design practice KGID in Munich in 1991
and already presented furniture designs for
ClassiCon in 1992. His name is closely
associated with the company. The first book
about his work was published in 2002 by
ClassiCon; in Milan, a solo exhibition was
dedicated to his work. Since then, he has
been developing furniture, lighting, industrial
products for the most important companies in
the design scene. Many of his products won
international design awards, among them the
Mayday lamp, which received the prestigious
Compasso d’oro. The Chaos Chair by
ClassiCon is part of the collection of the
Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris). In 2006,
Phaidon Verlag published the book ‘KGID
Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design’. Most
recently, he has been curating exhibitions and
designing for museums. In 2012, Konstantin
Grcic was responsible for the exhibition
design of the German pavilion at the Venice
Biennial. Solo exhibitions of his oeuvre were
presented at the Museum Bojimans Van
Beuningen (Rotterdam), Haus der Kunst
(Munich, 2006), The Art Institute Chicago
(2009) and, most recently, ‘Panorama’ at
the Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein).
In England, Grcic received the title ‘Royal
Designer for Industry’. In 2010, Design Miami
awarded him the title ‘Designer of the Year’.
In 2016, ClassiCon celebrated 25 years of
collaboration with the publication of a Limited
Black Edition, accompanied by an artist’s
portfolio. chaos, diana, mars, odin, orcus,
pallas, ulisse, venus
