stools so close to the ground

  

there is a piece of furniture that inexplicably constitutes a sort of rite of passage for any designer

worth his or her salt, the ultimate quest, without which there can be no recognition: the chair.
the stool can not claim such a status. probably because the stool does not support the human body completely?
 

alessando mendini, adrien rovero, andrea branzi

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