[004]10.15.2023

High Commissioner stool

Salvaged solid oak flooring and recycled copper water piping were used to create this stool with a sliding backrest. The stool has been lightly scorched to bring out the grain. Inspired by animal markings such as tortoise shell and snake skin, I wanted to emphasise the oak's own natural patterns and markings. Together with the moving backrest this stool takes on its own animalistic form.

Materials: Salvaged solid oak flooring & recycled copper pipe

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Chiselling the recessed panels of the stool's oak seat

The stool with its backrest slid up through the seat

The lowered backrest hanging behind the seat, its carved panels facing out

The stool side on, only the backrest's handle showing above the seat

Two stools side by side, one with its backrest raised

The stool with its backrest lowered, copper stretchers between the legs

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A salvaged oak floorboard held up over the bench

The oak flooring cut down into lengths across the bench

A leg blank held up against the workshop, its top already shaped

Seat, backrest panels and legs cut out and laid on the bench

Bringing the salvaged copper water pipe back on the train

The copper pipe cut into stretchers, still tarnished

The stretchers cleaned back to bright copper on the bench

Looking through the handle cut into the backrest's carved panels

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