Image source: Fritz Hansen — Ro
© Fritz Hansen and the respective rights holders. Quoted to accompany INTEBEE's independent design commentary and research.
Collection Story
Origin
Ro™ is a family by Jaime Hayon that Fritz Hansen builds around a lounge chair of 2013. The footstool dates from the same year, and the sofa joined in 2017. Fritz Hansen gives the Danish word for tranquillity as the source of the name, and the sheet for the sofa speaks of the chair and the sofa as a small unified collection.
Design Language
For the chair, the sheet speaks of a soft, sculptured shape that follows body curves and has no roughness. Its shell leaves the sitter free to stay part of the room or to withdraw into a space of their own. On the sofa the same curves are given a larger scale, and the legs are trumpet-shaped aluminium.
Key Pieces
- Ro™ lounge chair JH1 (brushed aluminium legs) and JH2 (solid oak legs)
- Ro™ footstool JH11 (brushed aluminium legs) and JH12 (solid oak legs)
- Ro™ Sofa two-seater JH110 and JH120, introduced in 2017, listed on its own series page
Pieces in this collection
Ro Lounge Chair JH2
Jaime Hayon's Ro lounge chair JH2 on solid oak legs, made in Poland
Ro Foot Stool JH12
Ro foot stool JH12 by Jaime Hayon on four solid oak legs, made in Poland
Ro Sofa JH110
Jaime Hayon's two-seater Ro Sofa of 2017 with trumpet-shaped aluminium legs
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