[Title] Just after the show
[Artist] Konstantin Grcic
[Date] July 19 – September 18, 2007
Konstantin Grcic interprets the Hermès annual theme “danse” as that of “music”… “rock’n roll music”. The idea is to convert the two main windows of Maison Hermès into a small rock’n roll venue.
The frozen moment is that of ‘just after the show’ … the crowd of people is still hypnotized by the band´s performance, hands in the air, clapping applause for ‘more, more, more’. The stage is in the center of the windows, shiny silver equipment such as the drum set, amplifyers, electric guitars etc. create the distinctive references for the scenario.
The display of products will be done as if they were left on stage … draped over the amplifyers, hanging from microphone stands etc. The musicians have left the stage … but there are traces of them left behind. The crowd also wears bracelets, rings and watches as if to share their passion for Hermes as well as for music.
Konstantin Grcic
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. Since setting up his own design practice KONSTANTIN GRCIC INDUSTRIAL DESIGN (KGID) in Munich in 1991 he has developed furniture, products and lighting for some of Europe’s leading design companies. He creates industrial products widely described as pared down, simple, minimalist. What sets him apart from the minimalism in fashionable currency today is that he defines function in human terms, combining maximum formal strictness with considerable mental acuity and humor.