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Medici wins an Icon Design Award

The Medici Chair by Konstantin Grcic

As the UK agents for Mattiazzi, we are immensely proud to announce that the Medici chair - by the eminent designer Konstantin Grcic - has won the inaugural Icon Magazine Furniture Design of the Year Award, presented at Christ Church Spitalfields on Thursday night and collected on behalf of Konstantin and the Mattiazzi brothers by Daniel Aram.

Daniel Aram collects the Icon Award

Konstantin Grcic says "designing for Mattiazzi was like a personal time travel. It took me all the way back to my professional roots. At the very beginning of my career, I was trained a cabinet-maker. Working with wood is what I learnt from scratch. It is where it all started for me."

The designer Konstantin Grcic

"Mattiazzi make furniture in wood, using both traditional means of production and the newest digital production technologies. Medici was born on Mattiazzi’s factory floor. The chair was inspired by the material, the machinery and, of course, the skill and craftsmanship of the people we worked with."

Medici chairs being glued in the Mattiazzi factory

"Right from the beginning, I was looking for a distinct grammar for my design, a language that would express the characteristics of wood. I liked the idea of working with planks. They signify the very beginning of the production process – a tree trunk that is cut into slices. I like the way in which a carpenter joins wood. It is immediate and direct. The construction remains visible and easy to read. Structure turns into form."

The Medici Chair

The Medici is a low chair with a comfortably reclined posture. Its generous dimensions give it an embracing confidence. The chair can be used as a solitary piece of furniture or in small groups, in private or public, both indoors and out. It is produced in three different woods: American walnut, Douglas fir, and thermo-treated ash, a wood that is suitable for outdoors. The Douglas fir version is available in natural as well as in yellow and grey stain.

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