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AUG 21, 2008

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Superellipse
Multi candleholder

designer:
Piet Hein

design year:
2000

manufacturer:
Piet Hein, Denmark

materials:
Stainless steel

notes:
In civilization, man is surrounded on all sides, indoors and outdoors, by a deep, rarely noticed conflict between two ancient ways of shaping things: the right angled and the round. Wherever one looks, there are hordes of squares and circles and their preferred shapes: the rectangle and the ellipse.

The Danish poet and inventor Piet Hein asked himself a fascinating question: what is the simplest and most beautiful curve that mediates between these two conflicting tendencies? Piet Hein arrived at the formula for a figure which he called the Superellipse.

price:
$80.00