Category: Stool

KINK

Osko+Deichmann, the product design studio founded by Blasius Osko and Oliver Deichmann, created a minimalist family of tubular steel furniture named “KINK”. While normally tubing used in furniture is bent the Berlin design duo rather functionally folded, dented and kinked the tubes in their furniture pieces. The traces that come with the steel process are now integral to the furniture’s design.

The family consists of a table, chair, writing table, cantilever chair, sideboard, shelf, coffee table and floor lamp made exclusively of tubular steel, pine wood and clamps.

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Simplissimo

The Simplissimo collection was created by French architect and designer Jean Nouvel for the furniture manufacturer Ligne Roset. The line consists of chaise lounge, banquette, fireside chair, footstool and bench. As the name suggests, the objects are deliciously minimal and understated. Viewed in profile, each Simplissimo piece looks as if it has been designed with two strokes of a pen. Here is how Nouvel explains his vision:

I like simple objects, produced in a natural way, with a little wood, foam and plastic. This is a direct aesthetic, which goes straight to the point, inspired by ‘fitness’. This faux banality renders such objects moving. Different and similar, like the members of a family which will grow and take on colour over the generations.

Comfort of the seating comes from a Polyurethane foam applied over a sheet of grooved polypropylene. The upholstery hugs the curves of the metal structure and deliberately allows gathers in the corners, contributing to the overall aesthetic of the pieces.

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Steel stool

I love the sobriety of the steel stool prototype by Noon studio, created according to their philosophy of using honest materials and simplicity of execution.

The steel stool consists of only 2 elements; a metal sheet supported by a wooden t-frame. Not only do the materials give the stool a cool character, they also make the stool is very robust and durable.

With several stools you can also easily assemble a unique shelving storage for books.

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A_Stool

A_Stool is created by the American industrial designer Jonathan Nesci. In 2006 Nesci founded his studio HALE a part-design, part-production firm based dually in Chicago, IL and Scottsburg, IN.

Made of laser-cut powder-coated aluminum the A_Stool is a robust furniture piece to enrich your interior.
The stool is available in 2 different sizes: bar (44.5w x 45.7d x 76.2h cm) and counter (44.5w x 45.7d x 66h cm).

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Air

The Spain-born but London-based Héctor Serrano designed the Air: a plastic stool for the Spanish exterior furniture company Gandia Blasco. It is a compact and solid stool, but at the same time it looks light and slim with its fine section.

This polypropylene stool is made by rotational moulding, which is quite unconventional considering its triangle midsection.

It is available as a bar stool and low stool, and comes in white, black, tobacco and warm gray.

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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.

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Plum Stool

Inspired by the structure of leafs New York City based industrial designer Alvaro Uribe created the Plum Stool. An eye-catching organic and natural furniture piece.

Plum is part of a study into the concepts of lightness, structure and material. Made of carbon fiber, with a weight of only 300 grams, and due to its bended structure almost indestructible.

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AP Stool by Shin Azumi

London based Japanese designer Shin Azumi had to learn the concept of a chair. “I didn’t have a chair until I came to the UK,” he says. I think he has mastered the function of seating in an elegant, playful style.

The AP stool for Lapalma was initiated as an experiment, created from a single sheet of plywood. The stool was introduced at the Salone Internationale del Mobile 2010. The naturalness of the seat and body of the stool that merge from one to other is captivating.

A witty interpretation of an everyday activity, seating. This is more than just function — there is a Zen tranquility about it. Sometimes we fall for design because it is quietly good design.

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My Deer

This is My Deer, the perfect hunting trophy for us coolhunters. And it doubles as a stool, can you believe it?

My Deer was conceived by Dutch designer Jeroen Wesselink. Wesselink learned his moves from Richard Hutten, one of the leading designers of the school of ‘Dutch Design’.

Dutch Design can be characterized by the mashup of styles, materials and concepts, often resulting in ‘design reinventions’ with a fresh feel and a hint of humour.

So: Would you consider My Deer to be ‘Dutch Design’?

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