When was the first stool made

CoronaCrisisKruk is a bench with a handle designed for social distancing by Dutch design firm Object Studio to let users sit together while staying apart.

Dezeen Showroom: British industrial designer Benjamin Hubert has designed the aluminium Hula 46 bar stool , which comes in 10 colours, for Andreu World. Amsterdam-based Ming Design Studio put a modern slant on the traditional technique of lacquering to create Bold, curved wooden stools with a glazed finish to make you "want to touch it".

Hong Kong's Studio RYTE has developed a modular seating design made from flax fibre that can be broken down into three stackable segments for easy transport and storage. Japanese architecture firm Vegahouse has ventured into furniture design , using the traditional craft of bamboo weaving to make a minimal and modern stool.

The same design and materials appear in the bar stool, whose refined appearance translates to undeniable versatility, making it a tasteful and discreet fit in any setting. Structure in metal with burnished, gun metal finish or in white ; or with mat lacquered finish in sand , brick , sage green and white Finish plus version structure in metal with satin, chrome or black chrome finish.

Tips in metal with transparent finish. Feet rest on tips made of thermoplastic material. Skip to main content. The leg construction of the Y-leg stool, which emerged in , is also based on an invention for bending solid wood.

In this, two slender L-legs are chamfered on opposite corners and fixed together at right angles. The legs are joined together with distance pieces to form a frame on which the seating material is stretched.

There are many variations on this: it can be cloth webbing or woven leather, linen fabric, leather or rattan. The third type of furniture leg is, in fact, a bunch of very slender L-legs. It was no longer a question of furniture for the everyman. These pieces of furniture are made largely by hand and the seats and table-tops are in leather or fine hardwoods. The bent-wood reliefs designed by Alvar Aalto were originally made as dressing for exhibitions of Aalto furniture.

Their primary purpose was to show exhibition visitors the structure and construction methods used in the furniture that was on show. The first time the reliefs are known to have been on show was in London in , at the Wood Only exhibition.

Some of these reliefs were only made in an edition of one, but new editions were made of some of the others later on. If an object is popular, beautiful, or sought after, people begin to imitate and copy it. This has happened with stool no. Today, over one million of the stools have been made in the Huonekalutehdas Korhonen factory in Finland.

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