One of the most famous examples is Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair. Breuer looked at how tubular steel was being used to mass produce bicycles and came up with a ground-breaking chair design that was strong, flexible and could be manufactured efficiently because it capitalised on existing tools and materials.

A century later, we’re still in awe of the pieces Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe and other early modernists came up with. And, tubular steel remains an excellent material in furniture design. It is light, strong, malleable and 100% recyclable – factors that made it ideal when we created our Rosa Lounge Collection.

As we prototyped the Rosa sofa and armchair through our iterative design process, we began to imagine other furniture designs utilising simple, elegant tubular steel frames. While Rosa was taking its final form, we decided to create tables to accompany it. As it happens, the Sol Table Collection actually began its journey under the Rosa name.