Soft Edge 101 Lounge Chair is part of the Soft Edge collection designed by Iskos-Berlin for HAY — a lounge chair that represents one of the most technically and formally accomplished pieces in the entire HAY seating range. The Soft Edge collection is built around a single defining material innovation: a shell formed from a composite of wood fibres and polypropylene that achieves a softened, genuinely rounded edge profile — the soft edge of the collection's name — while maintaining the structural rigidity required of a practical chair shell. This combination of formal refinement and material efficiency is what distinguishes the Soft Edge from both conventional plastic shells and solid wood alternatives at this quality level.
The lounge chair takes this material and formal intelligence to its most generous scale within the collection — the wider, lower proportions of the lounge format provide a relaxed, welcoming seated posture suited to extended residential and hospitality use. Iskos-Berlin's design approach consistently seeks to use material technology in service of better human experiences rather than as a demonstration of technical capability, and the Soft Edge 101's genuine seated comfort and clean formal quality are the visible result of this priority. The rounded composite shell edges give the lounge chair a softness of profile and a tactile warmth that is entirely appropriate to its lounge format. Available in HAY's range of shell colour and leg finish options.
The Soft Edge 101 Lounge Chair is well suited to residential living rooms, hotel and hospitality lounge settings, and any interior context where a lounge chair of innovative material quality, strong clean formal character, and genuine seated comfort is required. Its position within the broader Soft Edge collection — which spans dining chairs, counter stools, and barstools — makes it the natural anchor piece for interiors where a coherent Soft Edge seating scheme across different chair formats and heights is the design intention.
Available as a 2D DWG drawing and 3D model.