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MILKDROP STOOL


Type:
Object

Status:
Prototype

Date:
January, 2021


The Milkdrop Stool attempts to resolve a conflict in the stacking stool typology. Historically stools stack in one of two ways: either the legs are moved outboard of the seat (as in Aalto’s Model 60 stool), or the legs splay to the seat’s diameter (as in the ubiquitous lab stool).

On the Milkdrop Stool, the cast aluminum seat yields to the splayed legs. As the stools stack, less and less leg is presented to the seat, and the recesses of the coronet become shallower.

The form of the stool is thus a result of its aggregation. Although in fact it was the geometry itself - inspired by Harold Edgerton’s canonical stroboscopic photograph -that elicited the object and its performance. 


01. stacking
02. stool prototype

03. detail

04. Harold Edgerton, Milk Drop Coronet, 1957


01. plan











Ø.08
MILK DROP STOOL


Type:
Object

Status:
Prototype; Work In Progress

Date:
January, 2021


The Milk Drop Stool attempts to resolve a conflict in the stacking stool typology. Historically stools stack in one of two ways: either the legs are moved outboard of the seat (as in Aalto’s Model 60 stool), or the legs splay to the seat’s diameter (as in the ubiquitous lab stool).

On the Milk Drop Stool, the cast aluminum seat yields to the splayed legs. As the stools stack, less and less leg is presented to the seat, and the recesses of the coronet become shallower.

The form of the stool is thus a result of its aggregation. Although in fact it was the geometry itself - inspired by Harold Edgerton’s canonical stroboscopic photograph - that elicited the object and its performance. 




01. stacking
02. stool prototype

03. detail

04. Harold Edgerton, Milk Drop Coronet, 1957





 

01. plan
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