About A Chair / Story
The solid rounded shell and unified silhouette of the About A Chair AAC 24 adds executive weight and brings a warm, welcoming expression to the otherwise functional and technical genre of office chairs. The swivel four-star castor base comes in various finishes, with the post-consumer recycled plastic shell offered in a wide palette of contemporary colours, along with multiple front or fixed seat upholstery options. The chair’s functional design combined with the castor base makes it particularly suitable for formal or official settings, and work-at-home offices.
Hee Welling is a Danish furniture designer who founded his own studio in Copenhagen in 2003. The son of a cabinetmaker, Welling’s fascination with production techniques, materials, and machinery was fired as a child. He went on to study at The University of Art and Design in Helsinki, and received his master’s degree in furniture design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Centred around the idea of creating technically accomplished products that can reach a wide audience, his designs are characterised by a great sense of proportion and quietly elegant aesthetics.
Welling has received a number of design awards, including the Bo Bedre Award (Denmark), Good Design Award (USA), and has been nominated as Danish designer of the year in 2013 and 2014. For HAY, Welling has designed the About A series and the Hee Collection.