Rival Chair
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- Designer Bio
Brand:
Artek
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Konstantin Grcic’s Rival Chair represents a fresh approach to the wooden chair. While its arms and backrest are made of form-pressed birch lamella, its legs are milled from a single piece of solid birch, taking on a fluid quality more similar to moulded plastic than timber. Rival is Artek’s first chair with a swivel function; the upholstered seat, available in a choice of textiles and colours, conceals a clever aluminium “knot” that rests in a polypropylene “socket,” allowing a circular movement. The graceful lines of the Rival Chair mean it swivels effortlessly from office to dining table.
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Konstantin Grcic |
Konstantin Grcic trained as a cabinetmaker at the John Makepeace School in Dorset, England, before studying industrial design at the Royal College of Art in London. Since founding his Munich-based practice Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) in 1991, he has developed products, furniture and lighting for leading design companies.
Many of Grcic's products have received international design awards and his work can also be found in the permanent collections of important design museums (such as MoMA, New York, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris).
He has curated a number of design exhibitions, including DESIGN REAL for the Serpentine Gallery, London (2009), COMFORT for the Saint-Etienne Design Biennale (2010) and black2 for the Istituto Svizzero in Rome (2010). In 2012 he was responsible for the exhibition design of the German Pavilion at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice. |
