1905-1996

Danish inventor and poet who decided to find an absolutely harmonic physical dsign. This became the superellipse which solved the double contrast between the circle and the square and that of the ellipse and the rectangle. This harmonic geometrical figure was first used on a large scale in connection with the solution to a town planning problem in Stockholm.

Within furniture design the superellipse also became the solution to various problems - especially in relation to Piet Hein's design for table tops the superellipse became popular.