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"facebook dialogPinterestPhotograph courtesy of Martin Kreuzer and MoMA.\n\nKnown for his use of color and geometric shapes, Munich native Konstantin Grcic, 48, has collaborated with major manufacturing and design brands like Herman Miller, Muji, and Flos; his Myto chair (pictured below) resides in MoMA's permanent collection; and this month, Germany's Vitra Design Museum hosts \"Panorama,\" a major exhibition of his work. Here, Grcic reveals some of his can't-live-without pieces.\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestKonstantin-Grcic-Myto-Chair-MoMA.jpgPhotograph courtesy of Martin Kreuzer and MoMA.\n\n Myto chair\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestKonstantin-Grcic-360-chair-MoMA.jpgPhotograph courtesy of Martin Kreuzer and MoMA.\n\n 360 chair\n\nIn His Home: \"There's a small chair I have in my bedroom that was created by my friend, the Swedish designer Mats Theselius, probably over 15 years ago. It's primitive, exaggerated\u2014like a cartoon of a chair. It's the kind of beautiful thing that I could never do.\"\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nAt The Show: \"The Mayday Lamp (pictured below) I made for [the Italian lighting company] Flos is one of my favorites. It comes in handy in all sorts of situations: the garage, for working on the old Mercedes-Benz; the garden, where it can hang from a tree; on the floor, when you need to get the cat from behind the cupboard. Personally, I have one next to my bed for late-night reading.\"\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestfacebook dialogPinterestPhotograph courtesy of Martin Kreuzer and MoMA.Photograph courtesy of Martin Kreuzer and MoMA.\n\n Mayday Lamp\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nFrom The Past: \"In the sixties, the great Italian master Ettore Sottsass was designing some of the first computers, but at the same time he was making these amazing handcrafted ceramic vases. He managed to combine the two. His ceramics have a very rational quality, while the typewriters have an emotional aspect (pictured below).\"\n\nfacebook dialogPinterestEttore-Sottsass-typewriter.jpgPhotograph courtesy of Martin Kreuzer and MoMA.\n\n\n\nOn Design: Konstantin Grcic on Nowness.com\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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