ECAL

Swiss industrial designer Nicolas le Moigne created ECAL, a stool and side table of fibre cement, a mixture of cement and asbestos cellulose and synthetic fibers. Organically shaped, light of weight and durable, ECAL is perfect as garden furniture, but the stool and side table would look amazing indoor as well.

ECAL was conceived as part of a design contest at the University of Art and Design (ECAL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Photography by Thomas Adank.

  1. Maarten
    02.08.10 14:45

    I love the fresh contradiction between the heaviness of the material, and the thinness of the design. WANT!

  2. PRGM2
    02.08.10 18:00

    Very cool, but asbestos?

  3. Jericho
    02.08.10 18:02

    Asbestos, no problem. You can’t get cancer in Switzerland.

  4. john
    03.08.10 12:22

    asbestos?
    buy this stool to ppl you hate

  5. Ulrich
    07.08.10 02:43

    There is no asbestos in this material. In the early 80s Eternit, the Swiss manufacturer has replaced asbestos with a mix of cellular and synthetic fibers.

  6. Ulrich
    08.08.10 01:27

    Correction: It’s “cellulose” and synthetic fibers.

  7. david
    10.08.10 01:11

    ??? aaah, ok. it’s not asbestos.

  8. Maarten
    20.08.10 10:44

    These business cards which Ultra:studio made for this designer are also pretty cool: http://www.ultrastudio.ch/?page_id=790#