Result Dining Chair is a design by Wim Rietveld and Friso Kramer — a collaboration that produced one of the most formally intelligent and historically significant industrial chairs of the twentieth century. Originally designed in 1958 for the Dutch contract and office market, the Result is a pressed steel shell chair of extraordinary formal economy: a single formed steel shell creates both seat and backrest in a single unified surface, mounted on a four-leg steel base to produce a chair of remarkable lightness, stackability, and visual resolution within a completely considered and uncompromised form.
The chair's name speaks directly to its design ambition — the Result of applying industrial production logic, honest material thinking, and ergonomic intelligence to the challenge of a practical, producible chair at scale without compromise or formal complication. HAY's reproduction maintains the original's formal and material character while applying contemporary production standards to the steel shell and frame. The pressing process that forms the shell is central to the design's identity — the steel's material properties are used simultaneously to achieve the chair's distinctive form and provide its structural rigidity, without additional reinforcement or secondary structural materials. The Result's design provenance and stackability make it a meaningful and culturally significant specification for any design-literate environment.
The Result Dining Chair is well suited to residential dining rooms, contract and institutional settings, hospitality environments, and any context where a historically significant industrial chair of remarkable design economy and formal quality is the brief. Its stackability and the cultural depth of the Rietveld–Kramer collaboration make it an appropriate specification for any design-literate environment. A Revit file is available alongside the 2D and 3D formats, making the Result straightforward to specify and coordinate within BIM-based architectural and hospitality project workflows.
Available as a 2D DWG drawing, 3D model and Revit file.