Hay Stackable stool Natural wood Wood. Dimensions: Ø 46.5 x H 46 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.> Flash sale: special price for a limited
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