HAY has reissued the enduring X-Line Chair, initially conceived by Danish designer Niels Jorgen Haugesen within the late Seventies. Beloved for its industrial enchantment and handy stackability, the light-weight metallic chair will come again in a spread of recent colours.
In a press release, HAY co-founder Rolf Hay stated “The X-Line Chair is among the few high-tech objects that got here out of Denmark.” “However in some ways, it’s one of the vital clever designs to come back out of our nation. So minimal and nicely thought out,” he continued.
Certainly, this explicit design departs from Denmark’s extra natural, wood-focussed furnishings from the mid-century interval. The chair’s strains have been sharp, simplified and rendered in chrome wire and perforated metal — functionalist in each sense. When stacked, the X form reveals itself with prominence, a element that depends on the piece’s sensible objective.
Having emerged through the latter finish of the mid-century Modernist currents, the X-line chair contrasts with the gently curved types and materiality of typical Danish design. After working beneath Anne Jacobsen within the Nineteen Sixties, Haugesen began his impartial observe in 1971, which later launched the X-Line chair in its unique chromed end in 1977.
Awarded the Danish ID Prize in 1987, the chair was first reissued by Danish model Magnus Olesen in 2022 after a break from the market. Nonetheless, HAY’s new launch presents never-before-scene colours co-curated by the Haugesen property, together with numerous shades of inexperienced, rusty pink, and blue.
The X-Line Chair is offered now for pre-order from official HAY sellers and is about to launch in Spring 2025.
