Superellipse Coffee Table, 1968 

Superellipse Coffee Table designed by Bruno Mathsson and Piet Hein in 1968.

Piet Hein (1905-1996) was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet. He advocated the use of the superellipse curve in city planning, furniture making and other realms.

Bruno Mathsson (1907-1988) was a Swedish furniture designer and architect with ideas colored by functionalism/modernism, as well as old Swedish crafts tradition.  

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