patrick norguet's degree stool for kristalia travels the world

photo by johan bergström

rather than going the conventional route of promoting patrick norguet‘s ‘degree’ stool, the team at italian furniture brand kristalia decided instead to send the seating object around europe to be captured by famous photographers in locations of their choosing. in this first iteration of the project,  johan bergström (sweden), jos kraaijeveld (the netherlands) and pascal fellonneau (france)all of who question and explore the landscape on different degrees through their work, were selected to interpret the stool in their own personal way.

photo by johan bergström

through his series of images, swedish photographer johan bergström has arranged multiple ‘degree’ stools in the forest.through his work bergström projects questions and ideas against the natural environment, here the furniture piecescaught outside of their normal, standing in limbo.

photo by johan bergström

photo by jos kraaijeveld

capturing the interaction between man and environment, dutch photographer jos kraaijeveld has selected a rural, industrial environment – with a factory and wind turbines – as his backdrop for norguet’s stool, bringing forth questions of why people use their environment  the way they do.

photo by jos kraaijeveld

photo by pascal fellonneau

french photographer pascal fellonneau has shot the ‘degree’ stool in an quaint, domestic environment questioning the urban scene and the way we inhabit it.

photo by pascal fellonneau