Stool 11

The challenge

The lack of well-designed furniture in bars and houses.

The solution

Stool 11 was made to bend the rules, be different, think different, but achieve this in an elegant, balanced, proud but minimalist way. While designing the stool I tried to express my own view of life in the stool. I believe it is important to swim against the stream, this I do, but I also believe I should do this in an uninstructive way and let the fish that choose to follow the stream swim. Stool 11 is different while not being an obstruction to the eye. DESIGN PRINCIPLES This is partly accomplished by following the MAYA principles and making it visually acceptable while being different. I believe that stool 11 is visually pleasing due to it’s parallel and orthogonal lines. When looking at the stool from the front or back you will find that the chair is semantical. Stool 11 bend the rules by its 90-degree angle in the foot, which proportion is calculated to be the golden proportion. Meaning that the bottom part of the angel is 1.618 larger than the top part, making it even more pleasing for the human eye. The two bottom circles being the foot plate and the posterior, are perfect lines, visually forming a cylinder. To spice things up a little and get some novelty aspects to the chair, the backrests diameter is 1.618 times larger than the other two circles. This brings the extended cylinder out of proportion making the design a lot more interesting to the eye, this feature can also be linked to the Similarity of the gestalt principles. The continuation gestalt principle states that if something is connected/fleuwent the eye tends to follow it, making it more aesthetically pleasing. Stool 11 accomplishes this by manufacturing the two aluminum parts which each one single bent aluminum pipe. By making the part with one single part the eye has the tendencies to follow the pipe making it more stratifying to look at. BALANCE Balance is one of the most important design features of stool 11. the backrest and footrest one single peace that is balanced on a single thrust bearing. The balance reflects one of my important value’s in people. When sitting on the chair the balance makes it possible to softly lean back while tilting the footrest up. MINIMALISM The whole design turns around minimalist, this is partly implemented by only using 3 basic resources: metal wood and leather. All resources are untreated and uncolored, giving it a natural and minimalistic appearance.