Terunobu Fujimori

 

This is the Fuji Stool designed by Terunobu Fujimori for the Storkhouse. In 2011, architect Terunobu Fujimori and writer / photographer Roland Hagenberg completed a guesthouse in Raiding, Austria. "Storkhouse" was designed using local materials together with the people of the Raiding, and currently operates as a guesthouse for tourists and visiting musicians. This is a project by the Three Travellers.

Below the Stork house.

Mokkoku

Beautiful clean design combining walnut and oak in a joint of great beauty and resilience. These kitchen stools are by Japanese furniture maker  Yoshiaki Tanaka Tanaka Yoshiaki who established Mokkoku in 2007.

Ryo Chohashi

Japanese furniture designer Ryo Chohashi integrates recycled elements into his designs contrasting the new timber with the patina of worn older timbers.

Samuel Reis

Samuel Reis's pine collection uses the form and component elements of the pine tree, taking advantage of the natural curve of the trunks and the needles. The curved forms offer great strength and performance due to the integrity of the fibre. Samuel Reis graduated in product design last summer from ESAD. Thank you

Hamajima Takuya

Hamajima Takuya's designs have a industrial quality with their mix of metal and timber yet they also resemble very fine mechanical objects like clocks.

" . . . my intention in this work is not only about function or efficiency, but more about the work connecting the individual with the world in a harmonic relationship." Hamajima Takuya

Alexandre Reignier

 

  

Alexandre Reignier is a self taught designer with a love of wood and varied design genres. Alexandre attaches alot of importance on a high level of finish, mixing materials to take advantage of all there different qualities. When I first saw this stool I thought it was made with a clear resin base so that it was almost floating which I really liked as a contrast with the oak slats

 





Cosine I

Cosine is a company founded by Hokkaido Asahikawa who's philosophy is that you should craft carefully a tool of life from wood, so that it will be loved for a long time and this longevity of the well crafted/ designed object is key to sustainability. A life tool that improves with use and love.

Antti Nurmesniemi

Sauna stool by Finnish designer Antti Nurmesniemi from 1952 caught my eye for its economic use of wood in the seat design.

Christian Juhl I

Christian Juhl's innovative latch stool with legs that attach with a beer bottle type metal fastening.

Mushroom Stool by the Yamanaka Group

This mushroom stool was designed in the 1960's and relaunched in 2003 by the Yamanaka Group. Its original concept was conceived by manipulating paper not by developing sketches and drawings, you can read the full story of this unique stool here.

Galvin Brothers I

The Galvin Brothers developed their business on from their fathers cabinet making and joining business in 2012. They are based in Beverly Yorkshire, Mathew Galvin is a designer and his brother Andrew is a joiner, it is the perfect partnership creating beautifully crafted and designed pieces.

Mingu Wood Studio I

Attention to detail and these lovely joints made with different woods make a simple stool by Mungu Woods Studio something of great beauty.

Filip Gordon Frank & Iva Jerkovic

Styx is a wooden barstool that comes in three different versions. It is made in solid oak and beech the seat, back legs and a foot rest visually create one part of a chair while front legs and back rest the other, creating an illusion of a chair being made of two different interlocked pieces.

All constructive components are carefully designed in such a manner to make an integral part of a chair depriving it of any superfluous elements designed by Filip Gordon Frank and Iva Jerkovic.

Jack P Craig

Jack Craig lives and works in Detroit Michigan.He studied Industrial Design at the University of Illinois, graduating in 2010. He continued studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art, earning a Master of Fine Art in 3D Design. 

The work pictured is part of his broken board series where he has combined the shattered broken pine with polyester resin. The captured the texture of the torn wood surface is protected and sealed in the resin and is the focus of these pieces.

Lina Marie Koppen II

This unique stool design is more like a toy or a puppet but I love the way Lina Marie Koppen plays with different ideas in her designs and in these the anthropomorphism of this furnitures feelings.

"These stools question the act of sitting, we need to balance while sitting down. Some of those stools need some proper tightening before usage. Otherwise they only will be laying stretched out on the ground, relaxing from all the exhausting carrying." Lina Marie Koppen

Itsy Bitty and Itsy Bitsy by Melvin Ong

Itsy Bitsy and Itty Bitty are eight legged stool designs by Melvin Ong a design which uses the features of a spider hence its nursery rhyme association, the eight 'spider legs' allow for a rocking motion.

Brian Beck

 

"Alvo is hand built by Brian using vintage german block planes and a simple bench lathe. There are no jigs or computerized cutting machines so each one has its own personality." Urbancase

Folding Stool from Pinch Design

Designed by Russel Pinch of Pinch Design this folding stool has been designed to look as elegant when stored and not in use as when it is. It has a solid walnut frame, with an oak seat that folds down the centre like a hinge.

Matomi Kawakami

Step stool and shoe horn an odd but elegant marriage in design by Japanese designer Matomi Kawakami 

Carl Clerkin

Carl Clerkin's designs are often hybrids of two functional domestic objects, here is his 'bucket stool' made from beech wood (thank you).