PIET HEIN 1905-1996
Danish poet, mathematician, inventor, and designer who created the Superellipse™ table in 1968 together with Bruno Mathsson.
BIOGRAPHY
The rational idealist. Piet Hein was neither an architect nor a furniture designer - but a philosopher, poet, mathematician etc. He created the Superellipse as a new oval shape for the Sergel's Square in Stockholm. In cooperation with the Swedish designer, Bruno Mathsson, he later used the shape for the Superellipse Table Series which Fritz Hansen put in production in 1968.
TABLE SERIES™
Expect only the best, when Arne Jacobsen, Piet Hein and Bruno Mathsson unite in timeless table designs.
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