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Stekka stool
LOCATION
THE DANISH ART WORKSHOPS
PROGRAM
FURNITURE FOR SKICENTER
YEAR
2021
STATUS
PROTOTYPING
Stools and tables designed for a skicenter in Norway. The idea is to create simple, robust furniture that can withstand impacts from ski boots and that can be made using a circular saw and local pine wood. The solid planks are split into two, forming each side of the stool, with the heartwood towards the center of the stool and the sapwood on its periphery. The furniture demonstrates the process of how timber is optimally processed simply into a piece of furniture: it is split down the middle, where the wood will move the most, and crafted into two quarter sawn, dimensionally stable planks. The original wood's nature is easily discernible in the furniture. Even though the wood has been processed, the furniture still retains the essence of the original tree.Underneath the chair, there is room for ski boots, which otherwise often collide with chair legs and structures. The stool is not intended as an isolated object, but as part of a homogeneous landscape of simple stools, benches and tables.
