Hay Coffee table Blue Wood. Dimensions: Ø 66.5 x H 32 cm. Danish brand Hay
has teamed up with the famous Swiss furniture manufacturer Dietiker to pay
tribute to Swiss designer Bruno Rey (1935–2019). For the occasion, the iconic
“Rey” collection designed by Bruno Rey in 1971 is taking on new dimensions
and a new colour palette specially selected by Hay. The first patented chair
with a screwless wood-metal connection, the Rey chair has been named the most
successful piece of Swiss furniture ever by the Swiss Museum of Design in
Zurich. Sold in over a million copies, it’s a timeless work of art. Composed
of a chair, stools and tables, the Rey collection retains the iconic unified
silhouette and innovative screwless production process, but is updated with new
dimensions and colours. As solid as the legendary original Rey, an icon of the
Dietiker production house, the collection has lost none of its charm: as robust
as ever with its characteristic rounded edges. Extraordinarily strong, stable
and stackable, these sleek yet distinctly designed pieces fit a wide variety of
domestic and public spaces. Bruno Rey (1935–2019) is a Swiss industrial
designer who served his apprenticeship in cabinetmaking before attending the
School of Applied Arts in Zurich. He is world famous for his Rey chair (or
“model 3300”), an icon of Swiss design since 1971. The Rey chair has become
one of the most popular chairs in Switzerland: over five decades, it has been
sold over 1.5 million times and can be found in many residential and public
spaces. In the early 70s, Bruno Rey was looking for the design of a contemporary
wooden chair as a symbol of the present. He finally found his inspiration in
Thonet's chair from 1850. Bruno Rey developed entirely innovative assembly and
design techniques for a new type of wooden chair. The Rey chair was the first to
receive a patent for its unique screwless wood-metal connection. The legs of the
chair are connected to the round seat by means of aluminium connecting pieces.
The Rey chair, also called the model 3300, went into production in 1971. Over
time, the collection has expanded with stools and tables. The curved lines of
the Rey collection exemplify Rey's search for organic forms in contrast to the
stubborn formalism of the 1960s and 1970s. The use of the curve was a personal
revolution against the dominant design doctrine of his time, an attempt to stand
out from an existing generation of designers. Bruno Rey: In light of the
angulo-formalist furniture, cubically austere and without any seating quality,
which was common at the time, I suspected for the first time that new forms of
round furniture could be both necessary and useful for space and people.>
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