Myto chair

 

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The new Myto cantilever chair swings lightly and delicately.

It’s a so-far unique cooperation between producers of furniture and synthetics and designers: Plank, BASF and Konstantin Grcic have together faced the challenge to develop a stackable synthetics cantilever chair. For all the stakeholders it has been an important step to reinterpret this icon of design history and to realise it in slightly more than a year. The free-flowing synthetic Ultradur® High Speed allowed the conception of the chair as monobloc die-casting, in the carrying frame construction of which the net-like seat and back area are creating the typical sense of sitting.

The innovative material is responsible for a range of positive properties of Mytho: The BASF Ultradur® High Speed synthetic is light-fast, cold and heat-resistant (-90ºC,+ 150ºC), 100% recyclable, it’s got a good chemicals-resistance and it has even been awarded the eco-efficiency seal.

Pushing the possibilities of the materials to the limit, Konstantin Grcic designed the elegant cantilever chair with a highly stable frame, smooth transitions and a seat with net-like openings. Myto can be used in the areas of living, objects and office and it is suitable for in- and outdoors.

The chair can be found in these museums:
Neue Sammlung - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich;
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Awards: interior innovation award 2009 (best of the best)

Details to Myto chair

• Design: Konstantin Grcic
• Material: BASF Ultradur® High Speed
• stackable with up to 4 chairs
• dimensions: height: 82 cm, seat height 46 cm, depth 55 cm, width 51 cm
• colours: black, white-grey, red, orange, grey, yellow-green, aubergine and light blue

Supplementary information

• PDF Produktdatenblatt zum Myto Freischwinger Stuhl
• YouTube Video: Interview Konstantin Grcic über Myto

Design: Konstantin Grcic

Konstantin Grcic was born in Munich, Germany in 1965. After training as a cabinet maker at Parnham College in England he studied design at the Royal College of Art in London from 1988-1990. He founded his own company KONSTANTIN GRCIC INDUSTRIAL DESIGN (KG Designer Konstantin Grcic

Honoured with: Brit Insurance Design Award

The Brit Insurance Design Award is given by the Design Museum in London every year. It honors innovative, interesting and future-oriented works out of the most different categories out of the whole world. Designaward Brit Insurance Design Award

Honoured with: Compasso d´Oro

The compasso d’Oro (golden compasses) is the first design price which was awarded in Europe. Designaward Compasso d´Oro

Honoured with: iF Design Award

Since its introduction in 1953, the If Design Award is a constant, well-known trademark when it comes to outstanding design. Designaward iF Design Award

Honoured with: interior innovation award

Innovative masterworks of fair expositors of the International Furniture Fair in Cologne (IMM Cologne) are honored with the interior innovation award every year since 2004. Designaward interior innovation award

Honoured with: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

The first address in modern art... in 1929 the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors for the first time. Since that time the museum in New York belongs to the most important collections of modern art and design. Designaward Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)