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Explore 23 award-winning designs tagged Stool on A Design News.

Designer: Misaki Kiyuna Work: Stool Tag: Furniture

Hotaru

Hotaru is a reading chair with integrated lighting. The light stand also serves as a backrest, and the light falls on the hands of the person seated. The lamp turns on and off in the dark in response to people nearby. The position of the lighting can be adjusted back and forth. Hotaru is assembled from four parts, a seat, feet, a stand and a lighting unit, without metal fittings. The laminated plywood of the seat is left visible to show the warmth of the wood. Placed beside a bed, Hotaru also works as a side table and a lamp. The design suits homes with little space.

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Designer: Yifan Ding Work: Stool Tag: Furniture

Minus

Minus is a backless chair created by subtracting material from a basic cubic shape. The result is a minimalist form with smooth, flowing surfaces. Each surface change serves an ergonomic purpose. A lower curve provides a resting place for the feet. An upper indentation improves seating comfort. A scooped back and the top curve act as handles, so Minus can be lifted from the floor with ease. The body is made of plastic, finished with a light blue metallic coating or with marble patterns applied by hydro dipping.

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Designer: Jin Woong Lee Work: Stool Tag: 3D Printing

Polyhedron

The Polyhedron stool is a 3d printed stool that has an interaction of a closing flower. Except for one CNC processed metal component, every part is made through the 3d printer, allowing individuals to produce and reproduce themselves within small amounts (leading to numerous variations). When a flower sets, its petals gather (twirling inside). The ends go up, and the height gets changed. As grabbing its head, rotating the upper part makes pillars move and escalates the stool. The four gears inside convert circular move vertically, making the pillar's end rise.

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Designer: Metin Nergiz Work: Stool Tag: Furniture

Burgu

Burgu is a height adjustable seat designed for spaces such as bars and barber shops. The height adjustment gear is supported by four separate legs instead of a single central hub, so the whole mechanism stays visible. The seat and the gear are made of laminated solid wood, and the lamination prevents deformation and extends the service life. The legs and the gear are shaped on five axis machines for high precision. A large gear diameter and a thick thread allow the height to be adjusted quickly and steadily while seated.

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Designer: LiYing Huang Work: Stool Tag: Furniture

Arcstool

Arcstool is a low backless seat designed for use in homes and other interiors. The form is inspired by the natural arches of Arches National Park. Two curved wooden parts meet at a central point, creating a symmetrical shape with visible arc lines along the edges. The seat is 29 cm high, and the curvature of the top was selected after comfort tests with users. The wood is steam bent into set radii, dried, glued, sanded to a 400 grit finish and coated with a protective layer. Arcstool weighs 4 kg and supports more than 120 kg.

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Designer: Lu Yi Work: Stool Tag: Furniture

Ceremony

Ceremony is a backless chair designed for sitting, drinking tea and conversation. The frame is made of walnut and joined with traditional Chinese mortise and tenon joints. The structure reduces the amount of material used, while the seat remains stable and comfortable in use. The seat surface and the legs are cut by computer controlled machining and then refined by hand polishing. The chair is delivered for assembly by the user. The form refers to Chinese ritual culture, in which sitting is understood as a courteous act. The chair measures 400 mm in width, 320 mm in depth and 430 mm in height.

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Designer: Yuko Inamine Work: Stool Tag: Furniture

Flower

Make their lifestyle fun and convenient with a stool that can be rotated to change its purpose. Rotate to use as a stool, or use as a side table, magazine rack or stackable shelf. The side of the flower is a laminated plywood pattern using original colorful paper. Along with the performance that makes people to rotate, it also entertains children visually. It can change how to use it according to child's growth and lifestyle, so it can spend a long time with them.

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Designer: Arsalan Ghadimi Work: Stool Tag: Furniture

Era

Era is a backless chair designed as a sculptural seating element for interiors. The base is formed by metal rods fixed between an upper and a lower pole, each held by a metal ring with holes set at calculated angles. The rods turn around a central axis, and the reflection of light between the lines creates a sense of movement. All fastening elements are hidden, so the structure reads as a clear form. The seat is covered with foam and leather, and a plywood plate inside prevents the foam from deforming. Era measures 500 millimeters high, 450 wide and 450 deep.

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Designer: Jules S. Jaffe Work: Stool Tag: Furniture

Zig

The design is inspired by the desire to showcase the unique properties of wood in the context of the technical challenges that require both beauty and functionality. To Jules S. Jaffe, this is the challenge of furniture design. The stool employs a unique triple mitered joint that did not exist before. The challenge here was to provide stability and strength to accommodate a feeling of lightness and tension in the final design. The resultant stool has exemplary strength but also has a feeling of lightness and peacefulness that the geometry, dating back to the Pythagoreans from whom the designer takes inspiration.

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Designer: Vasil Velchev Work: Stool Tag: Furniture

Karamba

Inspired by a pirate movie this stool looks like captain's treasure chest, where he can successfully hide his loot from the crew, disguised like a piece of furniture. Besides the drawer there are 2 hidden compartments to keep your treasures. Wooden body, ship ropes make the appearance more realistic, like an actual piece of captain's cabin. In a modern interior design this could be a really good accent in the room.

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Designer: Franck Divay Work: Stool Tag: Furniture

Ydin

Ydin stool can be mounted by yourself, without using special tools, thanks to a simple interlocking system. The 4 identical feet are placed in no particular order and the concrete seat, acting as the keystone, keeps everything in place. Feet are made with scrap wood coming from a stairs manufacturer, easily machined using traditional woodworking techniques and finally oiled. The seat is simply moulded in a lasting fiber-reinforced UHP Concrete. Only 5 dissociable parts to be flat packed and ready to be shipped to final customers, is another sustainability argument.

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