Hee

Origin

The Hee Collection is a series of steel wire chairs and stools by the Danish furniture designer Hee Welling, made in a long-time collaboration with HAY. Welling founded his studio in Copenhagen in 2003, and the series dates from 2005. The aim was an archetypal chair refined to its last detail, with everything beyond the essentials cut away, so that a contemporary chair could suit many different settings. The result is pragmatic and easy to decode: like a line drawing, it wraps metres of wire into neat, straight lines, in three versions of bar stool, lounge chair and dining chair.

HAY has extended the series with designs in a hot galvanised finish. A seat cushion is offered as an option for the chairs and stools.

Design Language

Every chair and stool in the series is made from a single material, steel wire, in solid rods, either powder coated for the outdoors or hot dip galvanised. The pieces are stackable and weatherproof, and the wide assortment of colours and designs suits indoor and outdoor contexts, such as bars and restaurants, public spaces and home environments. Five powder coated colours are joined by hot galvanised steel, and plastic gliders in matching colours are standard, with black gliders on the hot dip galvanised versions.

Stacking limits depend on the type: bar stools stack on the floor up to 10 pieces, dining chairs up to 15 and lounge chairs up to 20. For conference use the chairs can be joined into rows, using a grey plastic floor linking device that is not premounted to the frame.

Key Pieces

• Hee Dining Chair: 47.5 wide, 50 deep and 79 cm high, with a 47 cm seat height
• Hee Lounge Chair: 72 wide, 67 deep and 67 cm high, with a 37 cm seat height
• Hee Bar Stool: 43 wide and 45 deep, in two heights of 76 and 86 cm with seat heights of 65 and 75 cm
• Hee Cushion: the optional seat cushion for the series