Stool tool Konstantin Grcic 2016
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About vitra
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Dual Purpose
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The Designer
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About Vitra Vitra is a Swiss family-owned company. It not only develops and produces furniture, but also has its own Campus with buildings by leading international architects.
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Stool-Tool Konstantin Grcic, 2016
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Stool Tool
Dual Purpose With its step-like platforms, Stool-Tool unites chair and table in a single object. It permits numerous sitting positions and directional orientations, and the desk-like backrest can serve as a small worktop or storage surface. These versatile options make StoolTool a multifunctional office furnishing that adds value to any workspace. Stool-Tool is suited for a wide range of environments, from public areas to small mid-floor office zones, from workshop and meeting spaces to otherwise unused corners and niches.
Colours All colours are suited for outdoor use. Special additives retard the fading of colours due to UV radiation. However, if Stool-Tool is exposed to sunlight for prolonged periods, the colour may change over time. For this reason, limited exposure to sunlight is advisable.
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76 Industrial Green 24 Light Gray 03 Poppy Red
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Stackability The Stool-Tool resembles a monolithic sculpture and invites users to spontaneously try out its many options. Intuitive use reveals numerous seating positions and possible functions as a small work or storage surface. Lightweight and stackable, the Stool-Tool also has a cutout handle that makes it easy to pick up and store away. What was most important about it, was making it as simple as possible in function. this was basically creating two levels at the right height, and creating an object which has the smallest possible footprint, yet the biggest size possible. that, combined with its necessity for being stacked,
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Dimensions Polypropylene, 5.5 kg, up to 10 units can be stacked on the floor, including stacking protectors.
Stool Tool
“Lightweight and stackable, the Stool-Tool also has a cutout handle that makes it easy to pick up and store away.”
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Stackability
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The ‘stool tool’ is, in a similar way to the ‘chair table’, a marriage between two things; one a chair and the other a table. these are morphed into a one volume. it is a very pragmatic design of a concept for a simple tool, which is to sit on and whilst you sit, you lean on or work on the surface. the user sits on the lower level, whilst the upper one naturally becomes the armrest or table. however, the upper level could be a high-stool, where the lower platform becomes a foot rest. you can use it in many different ways and however you want to sit on it. you may not even want to sit on it at all, you may want to use it as a side-table with two levels.
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Konstantin Grcic is a German industrial designer known for creating mass-manufactured items, such as furniture and household products. Described as having a pared down aesthetic, his functional designs are characterized by geometric shapes and unexpected angles. He was trained as a cabinet maker at The John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in Wood before studying Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Today Konstantin Grcic Design is based in Berlin. The office is active in several fields ranging from industrial design projects, exhibition design and architectural collaborations.
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“The functional idea of the use gives me all the elements. I just have to design the details.�
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Tel. +41.61.377.00.00 E-mail contact@vitra.com Hq.
Birsfelden, Switzerland
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Vitra Design Museum
Charles-Eames-Str. 2
D-79576 Weil am Rhein
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