Crate Lounge Chair is part of the Rietveld Originals x HAY collaboration, reproducing one of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld's most philosophically charged furniture pieces from his 1934 Crate series. The lounge chair takes the same construction logic as the rest of the collection — timber planks, exposed joints, transparent structure — and applies it to a lounge seating format, producing a chair that provides genuine rest while communicating clearly about its own making and the design values that informed its creation.

Rietveld's decision to use shipping crate timber and exposed joints was not only practical but ideological — furniture that concealed nothing about its construction and used materials without waste or pretension. The Crate Lounge Chair embodies this philosophy most completely: its angled form provides a reclined seating posture without requiring any element beyond the timber planks and simple fixings of its construction. The HAY reproduction maintains this integrity while applying the material quality and production standards of a serious contemporary furniture manufacturer.

The Crate Lounge Chair is well suited to residential living rooms and reading spaces where a lounge chair of historically significant design heritage and honest material character is the brief. Its angular, constructed quality makes it a strong visual statement in any interior, and its Rietveld provenance gives it a cultural depth that few contemporary lounge chairs can match. Available in untreated pine, lacquered, and painted versions. The angled timber form provides genuine lounge comfort through structural means alone, making the Crate Lounge Chair a compelling example of honest, resourceful furniture design.

Available as a 2D DWG drawing and 3D model.