German designer Konstantin Grcic has created a set of seats based on furniture in a 15th-century Italian artwork, which are on show at Galerie Kreo in Paris.

The Hieronymus exhibition opened today and includes five new pieces by Grcic, who has worked with Galerie Kreo since 2004.

The range was designed to emulate the spatial qualities of furniture pieces depicted in Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina's 1475 painting, St Jerome in his Study. Hieronymus is the Greek and Latin form of the name Jerome.
One of the seats in Konstantin Grcic's Hieronymous seating range is a tall anodised aluminium cylinder
In the painting, the saint is shown sat at a desk surrounded by shelves on a raised podium, in the centre of a much larger room. Different shapes and niches are cut out from the furniture, enforcing the scene's perspective. "What struck Grcic... is the degree of elaboration and architecture of the saint's study and the way it created a space in itself," said the gallery, which was founded in 1999.
The Hieronymous Metal seat has a raised detail where you rest your feet
Each of Grcic's designs offers a variety of seating places and positions, created by similar cut-out sections. He used fibre cement, aluminium, marble, wood and 3D printing to create the pieces, which vary significantly in shape and size.

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