ClassiCon

ClassiCon owns no factory. Manufacturing is handled by long-standing partner workshops in Germany, Italy and Portugal, and the company concentrates on the editorial work: which pieces to reissue, under which licence, and how exactly.

It was founded in Munich in 1990 by Stephan Fischer von Poturzyn, then on the board of the Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk. Shortly before that institution wound up in 1991, he took over its worldwide licences on the major classics. For Eileen Gray's work, ClassiCon describes itself as exclusive licensee of Aram Designs in London, to whom Gray assigned her worldwide rights in 1973.

The Adjustable Table E 1027, drawn in 1927 for her villa on the Côte d'Azur, is still the defining piece: a steel tube column and a circular glass top whose height is set and locked with a built-in key, no tools involved. The Gray catalogue also holds the 1925 Day Bed, the 1926 Non Conformist armchair and the Bibendum, whose centenary is marked by a limited series in 2026. Alongside the reissues, ClassiCon publishes contemporary work: Konstantin Grcic's Diana tables of 2002, folded from sheet steel with no visible fixings, and Sebastian Herkner's Bell Table of 2012, its base blown by mouth into a wooden mould.

Artopia carries ClassiCon in Geneva. The company issues a guarantee of originality on its reissues, backed by the licences it holds, which matters when copies of these same models circulate everywhere.