PIET HEIN

1905-1996 Danish poet, mathematician, inventor, and designer who created the Superellipse™ table in 1968 together with Bruno Mathsson.

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.