Konstantin Grcic is one of the most influential industrial designers alive. His work sits in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Centre Pompidou. He’s won the Compasso d’Oro three times. He’s designed for Flos, Magis, Vitra, Plank, and ClassiCon. Critics call him a minimalist, but Grcic himself rejects the label.

This is the story of a designer who learned to build furniture by hand in the English countryside, discovered his calling through an Achille Castiglioni exhibition catalogue, and went on to create some of the most provocative and structurally radical objects of the 21st century, from the Mayday lamp to Chair_One to the Myto cantilever chair.

Along the way, he made a distinction that matters far beyond design: simplicity is not the same thing as minimalism. One is a structural principle. The other is an aesthetic.

I am not a fan of the term minimalism in the slightest.

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