Original Stool
The design is the production process. The original stools are produced by using landscape as a crucial part of the formative process; rivers, hills (...).
The result is an unpredictable character, depicting the capturing story of its accruement. No two stools are the same; all have their own story and a place to call 'home'.
They are the children of a carefully conceived, free-range kinetic process.
The process captures specific time and place by permitting topography and meteorology to provide the distinguishing individual characteristics for each piece.
It uses the principle of rotational moulding.
A special constructed robust, hollow sphere is housing a suspended silicon mould of the stool.
After filling the mould with a specific mix of resin the sphere is allowed to interact with the terrain - Surrendered to the formative surrounding, it is maybe pummelled by white water or rolled down a secluded woodland path.
The serendipity within the rotation, subtle or manifest, is recorded by the flexing walls of the silicon mould.
The resin hardens in unique distortions and colour patterns, due to the landscape the orb is rolling on.
The process is in the foreground; full of chance, without a possibility of controlled intervention, it celebrates the importance of coincident. The journey of the orb forms a strong character, a manifestation of time and place.
A shift from object to experience takes place.