Hay Stacking chair Green Wood. Dimensions: L 44 x Depth 49 cm x H
80 cm – Seat: H 44 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 time only.
