Knot Stool Refuses to Hide Its Rope-and-Aluminum Joints
A small knot sticks out from the side of the Knot Stool, and I like that it hasn’t been tucked underneath or disguised with a…
A small knot sticks out from the side of the Knot Stool, and I like that it hasn’t been tucked underneath or disguised with a…
I have a soft spot for objects nobody bothers to credit, and the plastic stool might be the champion of them. It’s the monobloc chair’s…
Walk into any modern office, studio, or collaborative classroom and you’ll spot the same compromise everywhere. Furniture either sits still and looks good, or it…
I’ve seen a lot of stool designs that call themselves minimal and still hide a dozen fasteners under the seat. Yuval Meron’s Pipe Stool actually…
When I sit in a really comfortable chair or couch, there are times when it’s genuinely hard to get up and grab something I need….
Tying your shoes in the entryway shouldn’t feel like a balance test, but it usually does. You hop on one foot, grip the doorframe or…
I spend a lot of time in cities. Airports, subway stations, coffee shop benches, those weird little plazas that exist between office buildings where nobody…
Every stool I’ve ever owned has ended up doing three jobs it was never designed for. Phone stand. Laundry rack. Temporary table for the cup…
If you’ve ever tossed a plastic bottle cap into the recycling bin and wondered where it actually ends up, the Bit Stool might be the…
Sustainable design has a branding problem. Not an ethics problem, not a materials problem, but a branding problem. For years, the conversation around circular materials…
Furniture, as a category, is not usually meant to make you smile. It holds things, supports things, stores things. Function dictates form, and form gets…
The humble stool has barely changed in centuries. Four legs, a flat seat, done. It exists in every cafe, classroom, kitchen island, and co-working space…
There’s a certain kind of object that can’t quite decide what it is, and not in a bad way. Furniture has increasingly strayed into collectible…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what separates furniture that you simply own from furniture that you actually feel something about. Most pieces fall…
Furniture storage is one of those problems that design has mostly surrendered to square footage. You either have room for a stool, or you don’t,…
We’ve all been there. You’re deep into hour three of sitting at your desk, and suddenly you realize your feet are doing that weird thing…