Core77 - Blog • Jan. 22, 2026, 4:20 p.m.

In conjunction with a new exhibition, Magis has gone digging in the crates. Here's a short furniture design history lesson from the company, on Konstantin Grcic's Chair_One.

At Magis, there is no project without research. And when the collaboration with Konstantin Grcic began, in the late 90s, the subject of that research was a technology not commonly used to produce furniture: aluminium die-casting.

At that time, an unexplored territory that left space for creativity. The image of hot, liquid aluminium fired into the mould inspired a geometric design based on subtraction, with flat triangular elements joined at the edges and empty spaces characterising the aesthetics of the chair.

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