Milestones

On the 1st of December in 1940 our founder Peter Ghyczy was born in Budapest.

Due to the Hungarian revolution young Peter and his family flee to Bonn in Germany.

Peter finishes his architecture studies from the RWTH in Aachen and is employed by Reuter (Germany). Reuter has the patent for a worldwide new material: polyurethane. Peter Ghyczy becomes head of the design department and designs hundreds products for many international companies. His most known design of that periode is his legendary ‘Garden egg chair’. This is the first furniture in history made out of polyurethane.

Reuter opens the iconic design center designed by young architect Peter Ghyczy. Based on Peter’s idea to use the new material Polyurethane as building material, resulting in spectecular light ambiance inside the building and creates a positive workspace. In these years Peter creates designs for several international furniture brands, including Vitra in Weil am Rhein.

Peter Ghyczy invents the clamping technique and changes the world. He has inspired many designers, including Ikea, with his constructional solution, in which the glass plate becomes part of the construction of the table. Elegant and airy yet strong and reliable. In time Peter Ghyczy has designed numerous variations of the “clamp”.

Peter Ghyczy founds his own design firm ‘GHYCZY + Co Design Selection’ in Viersen (Germany) and launches his first eclectic and avant garde furniture collection, which includes designs in casted aluminium, metal and glass. Peter Ghyczy was influenced by the Club of Rome. His philosophy is to create products that are not designed to be thrown away. Therefor the design needs to stand out of the grey mass and needs to have the strength to always fit an interior also when trends change.

Peter Ghyczy and his company moves to The Netherlands. His youngest son Felix is born. In this year Peter Ghyczy designs the new logo, consisting of four “G’s”. Each shape symbolizes one of Peter’s children. In 1974 Peter also designs one of his best-selling pieces the table model T14 and registers copyright for this table. The T14 becomes one of his signature pieces.

In this year Peter designs the iconic chair S02. This chair has a flexible backrest, that adjusts to the movement of its user. The chair has since then been part of several exhibitions like in 2018 in the ADAM design museum in Brussel (Belgium) and in 2019 at the Design Biennale in Venice (Italy)

The Garden egg chair celebrates its 30th birthday. A re-edition is launched during the IMM (international Furniture Fair) Cologne, Germany in 1999.

Opening design center and showroom Swalmen, Netherlands. Design by Peter Ghyczy with a forward thinking, and sustainable concept. A modern building in the a bauhaus style. The building is airy, has heigh ceilings and lets a lot of light in. The atelier can be used for many purposes like, office, showroom, events and is great for photoshoots. An ingenious ventilation and heating systems makes this building future proof.

Felix Ghyczy the son of founder Peter Ghyczy joins the company.

Publication of the Ghyczy Selection 20th century retrospective catalog.

Peter Ghyczy after work at home.

Implementation of 21th century proof ERP system. An advanced computer system build for growth.

Introducing a state of the art online ordering system, the client use it to calculate retail prices of custom made products.

Exhibition Stylepark, Frankfurt, Germany. Introducing conceptual lighting collection.

Exhibition at International Furniture Fair IMM, Cologne, Germany. Art directed by Felix Ghyczy

A new chapter starts in the history of company Ghyczy Selection. Felix Ghyczy becomes CEO of the company and formulates a vision to make the brand a global high end interior products brand for cosmopolitain and sophisticated clients, while caring for the environment.

Change of the brand name into GHYCZY. A new sales catalogue is launched and a new sales team is hired for the introduction and acquisition of new international clients.

The 40th birthday of the Garden egg Chair is celebrated in the garden of the GHYCZY estate.

Felix Ghyczy works as an art director with Edward van Vliet to create the first steps for a new brand image and a brand catalogue. The brochure launched in 2010.

Book publication “Peter Ghyczy The Evolutioner” by DuMont under supervision of Felix Ghyczy

Hiring of extra sales force for the Netherlands and Belgium.

Selected with the best graduated design students of 2010 of the Netherlands and hosted an international event in the atelier. Among them: Teun Fleskens Sjoerd Vroonland Caroline Wilcke

Felix Ghyczy starts a program to make the company more efficient by implementing the Kaizen philosophy and optimizes the GHYCZY atelier.

Exhibition at Dutch Design Week DDW. ddw.org Conceptual exhibition to explain the GHYCZY sustainable philosophy.

Felix Ghyczy becomes the owner of GHYCZY.

Brand presentation during Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy. Marketing by https://www.p-s.it

Brand presentation during Interieur, Kortrijk, Belgium.

Exhibition at IMM

Felix Ghyczy creates collection for next generation developments of new colors and tactile.

In collaboration with the studio Matte and Felix Ghyczy strategy and developed of a new brand identity, catalogue, website and brand book.

Opening branded showroom Hamburg, Germany.

Development of signature piece Rachel, design by Felix Ghyczy.

Collaboration with BMW during the 100th anniversary exhibition in the BMW brandstore, Brussel, Belgium.

Collaboration with John Boyd for presentation of their new collection, London, UK.

Testing furniture collection for Nina Campbell London, UK.

Start of collaboration with Camron PR and Felix Ghyczy for the international role-out of the brand. Many publications follow.

Collaboration with Roelfien Vos and Kate Hume during “Salon Residence”, Singer Museum Laren, Netherlands.

Collaboration with LE carpets during Uptown design event, Brussels, Belgium.

Peter Ghyczy designs at his estate.

Press dinner for international press at the Sommerset house, London, UK.

Preparation for the exhibition at Kunst Museen Krefeld. Peter and his wife Barbara.

Collaboration with 15WestStudio Felix Ghyczy designs and develops the ‘sun rise mirror’ exclusively for Wallpaper Handmade

Felix Ghyczy speaks about sustainability during a pecha kucha event, Brussels, Belgium.

Retrospective exhibition on Peter Ghyczy in the ADAM museum Brussel, Belgium.

Release presentation book “Collection Design_&” featuring Peter Ghyczy’s work by La Charte, www.diekeure.be, Brussel, Belgium.

Group exhibition Wallpaper handmade, Milano, Italy.

Solo exhibition of the early work of Peter Ghyczy at Kunst Museen Krefeld, Germany

Group exhibition Wallpaper handmade, Singapore.

Joint studies by Peter Ghyczy.

Group exhibition at IIDE, Brussels, Belgium.

Interior for Chopard Amsterdam, Netherlands

Collaboration with DEDAR during Salone del Mobile to present new fabric collection, Milan, Italy.

Collaboration with David Tomaszewski and designing his new showroom, and office Berlin, Germany.

Exhibition during Design Biennale Venice. Presentation of the signature piece Jodie and Audrey.

Visit V&A museum, London, UK.

Exhibition hosted by Wallpaper magazine at XBANK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. XBANK hosts the magazine Wallpaper pop-up store.

Opening GHYCZY showroom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

GHYCZY designs the interior of the lobby of Parkhotel Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Collaboration with BestWool for their new collection, the Netherlands

Crowdfunding investment to reach strategic goals.

Setup international team of ambassadors in UK, France, Italy and UAE.

Hiring marketing director.

Introducing the GHYCZY signature collection.

Opening GHYCZY showroom and office, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Collaboration with Solid Nature and GHYCZY, collection limited in numbers.

50 years of GHYCZY Founded in 1972 by Peter Ghyczy with the vision to create a world where we live in harmony with nature. He believed that it is the responsibility of the designer and producers to make a product that is functional, and lasting. A product is truly sustainable when it lasts several life times. When designing his products had to meet these criteria. He was against trends, products that looked alike each other and products where not functional. His designs are now sought after by collectors and can be found in museums around the world.

Establishing the Felix Ghyczy Foundation, which holds all intellectual property rights of Felix Ghyczy and Peter Ghyczy as the GHYCZY brand and trademark. The foundation’s goal is based on Peter Ghyczy’s vision and philosophy.

In Memoriam Peter Ghyczy. At the age of 81 our founder, visionaire and chief designer passed away. We will miss him. He has influenced generations.

Collaboration with Lelievre for their new collection, Paris, France.

Since 50 years GHYCZY stands for sustainability. In collaboration with Klaarenbeek & Dros. The first chair worldwide is made of algae. As a test case to prove our concept, we 3d printed the garden egg chair out of algae. The Algae is sponsored by Kelp.blue. In 1968 the garden egg chair was designed as a concept to show the world the options off at that time new and revolutionary material polyurethane. Now 54 years later we used the design of the garden egg chair again. We believe that algae can revolutionise the plastic world and contribute to a more sustainable world.

Group Exhibition at Vitra Design Museum exhibition. The prototype algae based garden egg chair. Preview in German television: https://www.daserste.de/information/wissen-kultur/ttt/videos/ausstellung-plastik-die-welt-neu-denken-vitra-video-100.html

Launch GHYCZY WebShop: Signature Collection Vintage Collection