Hay Metro Stool

 

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Metro is the stool, which Peter Johansen designed for the famous Danish Design-company Hay. In reality Metro is of course more than a stool: Can be used as a little table or just as an interesting sculpture. It can stay single or in a long bank.

The graphic style of the big-city subway-plans is the inspiration and the eponym for Metro. It is the visualisation of a subway net and illustrates it in three dimensions, which we normally know as surfaces.

At the ouside style and design remind on circuit drawings, like we know them in the computer industry. So a reference to communication and media, to transport and high tech is made up – to the world in which we live in.

Metro demonstrated the advantages of wire as a material in a special kind of way – it is a good three-dimensional shape. Are metal-wires used for furniture, they seem to be a sketch, like contour drawings, and their transparent apperance does it give them airiness.

Design: Peter Johansen

As the son of a Norwegian father and a Swedish mother, Peter Johansen is a real mixture of the true Scandinavian. Designer Peter Johansen