Monza, a collection of wood-framed seating designed by Konstantin Grcic for Plank

The Monza collection of chairs, designed by Konstantin Grcic for Plank includes a bistro chair with beech wood frame and polypropylene backrest, an armchair with ash, oak or walnut frame and polypropylene backrest, a soft armchair with ash, oak or walnut frame and removable upholstered seat and an outdoor armchair with beech wood frame and polypropylene backrest, oak or walnut and polypropylene backrest, a soft armchair with structure in ash, oak or walnut and removable upholstered seat and an outdoor armchair with structure in solid iroko wood and polypropylene backrest.

Monza bistró chair

Chair with a structure in beech wood lacquered natural or stained black, backrest in polypropylene in the colours black, white, café au lait, caramel and terra brown and seat in flexible polyurethane foam in integral leather to match the colours of the backrest.

Armchair Monza

Stackable armchair with structure in natural lacquered ash, oak or walnut or ash stained white or black, polypropylene backrest in black, white, traffic red, wine red, light blue, yellow green. New additional colours: café au lait, caramel, terra brown. Available with a connecting device.

Armchair soft Monza

Armchair with structure in natural lacquered ash, oak or walnut or black-lacquered stained ash, removable upholstered seat in selected covers and polypropylene backrest in black, white, café au lait, caramel, terra brown.

Outdoor armchair Monza

Armchair with structure in solid iroko wood, oiled treated, polypropylene backrest in the colours black, white, light blue, light blue, yellow green, traffic red, wine red, café au lait, caramel, terra brown. Can be used outdoors and indoors.

Konstantin Grcic

Konstantin Grcic (b. 1965) trained as a cabinetmaker at the John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in Wood before studying design at the Royal College of Art in London. Since setting up his own studio in 1991, he has developed furniture, products and lighting for major design companies. Today, Konstantin Grcic Design is based in Berlin and works in various fields, from industrial design projects to design editions, exhibition design and collaborations in architecture and fashion.

His clients include Artek, Authentics, Cassina, ClassiCon, Flos, Flötotto, Kettal, Laufen, Magis, Mattiazzi, Muji, Mutina, Nespresso, Plank, Serafino Zani and Vitra. In the fashion and lifestyle sector, he has worked with Audi, Hugo Boss, Issey Miyake, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Rado and smart/Daimler, among others.

Grcic has collaborated with a number of institutional clients, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, Istituto Svizzero (Rome), Musée des Art Décoratifs (Paris), GrandPalaisRmn (Paris), Fonds national d’art contemporain (FNAC), Biennale de Design St. Etienne, Serpentine Gallery (London), Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein), Dresden State Art Collections (Dresden) and MUDAM (Luxembourg). The exhibitions are held at the St. Etienne Design Biennale, the Serpentine Gallery (London), the Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein), the Dresden State Art Collections (Dresden) and the MUDAM (Luxembourg).

Many of his projects have won international design awards, such as the Compasso d’Oro and the German Gold Design Award. The world’s most important design museums (MoMA, New York/Centre Pompidou, Paris/Die Neue Sammlung, Munich) have included his designs in their permanent collections.

In 2009, Grcic was appointed Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA / UK). Since 2020, Grcic has been a professor at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (Hochschule für Bildende Künste) and has been appointed member of the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin in 2021.

Plank

Plank is an Italian designer furniture manufacturer passionate about research in industrial production technology and an innovative approach to form. Since 1953, Plank has developed a range of timeless and iconic products through close collaboration with leading designers such as Konstantin Grcic, Naoto Fukasawa and Biagio Cisotti + Sandra Laube. Plank chairs, lounge seating, table systems and stools can be found in public, residential and contract spaces around the world.

Plank products have won numerous prizes and awards, such as the XXII Compasso d’Oro (Myto chair) and the iF Product Design Award, Gold (Miura stool) and are part of the collections of important museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Design Museum in Munich and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Project by Konstantin Grcic