Hay Round table Beige/Natural wood Wood. Dimensions: Ø 128.5 x H 74.5 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.
