Konstantin Grcic
Trained as a cabinet-maker, Munich-based designer Konstantin Grcic is perhaps best known for taking a craftsman’s approach to industrial processes: angular sofas that seem to have been carved out of polyurethane foam and basket-like chairs made by injecting liquid aluminium into molds to create a complex 3-D network. But with Osorom, a large circular seat for up to six people, Grcic let computer software give birth to the beast. After designing the shell-like, bagel-shaped digital form without thinking about how to build it, Grcic’s studio output the file to a rapid prototyping machine. With Italian manufacturer Moroso, Grcic found a new kind of plastic composite material with the right structural properties to mass-produce the form. In deference to its back-to-front development process, Grcic named the seat Osorom, its manufacturer spelled backwards.

Light gray nylon jacket, mesh scarf and waxed linen pants
by ENNIO CAPASA FOR COSTUME NATIONAL HOMME,
hat and watch by PAUL SMITH.
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