HAY

Why it is renowned

By 2015 HAY was operating in more than 50 countries.¹ Its Mini Market of small objects appeared at Selfridges in London, Le Bon Marché in Paris and the Tsutaya bookshop in Tokyo.¹ It came to the United States in 2015 through the MoMA Design Store in New York.¹ Herman Miller, majority owner since 2019, opened three HAY stores there with the company, in Portland, Costa Mesa and Chicago.¹ Two pieces HAY made and no longer makes, Louise Campbell's Prince chair of 2002 and Stefan Diez's Rope Trick floor lamp of 2013, are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.¹²³

The story

Mette and Rolf Hay, who had met while working at the furniture company Gubi, founded HAY in Copenhagen in 2002; the idea took shape when Rolf Hay and Troels Holch Povlsen, founder of Bestseller, decided to make furniture together.¹ The first collection was shown at the imm Cologne fair in January 2003; the first shop opened on Pilestræde in Copenhagen in 2004, and HAY House followed in 2007.¹ The founders remain its creative directors, Rolf for furniture and Mette for accessories, and work with designers such as Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Naoto Fukasawa, Inga Sempé and Scholten & Baijings.¹

What to know it by

• Palissade¹Ronan & Erwan BouroullecOutdoor steel furniture
• Élémentaire¹Ronan & Erwan BouroullecChair