OK, back to posting. Two weeks ago Brit Leissler over at core77 sent a “Postcard from Asia”, mostly dedicated to the monobloc stool, a close cousin of the chair functionalfate focuses on. No reason however to discriminate against benches, high stools, low stools, step stools, whatsoever.. As long as it has been monobloced it suits, and those stools had thus appeared e.g. here, here and (that a cool one) there on ff before.

Kicked off by Brit, this week will be stools only however. For a start, here go just a few images unfolding the so far largely unattended wild world of the monobloc stool.. Coming up: vinyl records on stools, classic Chinese furniture fused with monobloc stools, the mobile wooden monobloc stool kitchen, stool storage (i.e. storage in stools, not of stools), and other stuff, I have scribbled down on some piece of paper that got buried under those other pieces of paper which increasingly pile up on my desk while I keep working on the Big Book..

image on top: impromptu upholstering in Istanbul, 2005

A piano shop in Lijang, Yunnan province, China, 2007.

Stepping stool in Mexico, 2005.

Even easier to carry than plastic chairs; Vietnam, from gabysalas flickr.

In fact, the scene was not half as dramatic as it shows in the photo. Bulgaria, 2005.

In front of a tourist trap shop in Lijang, China, 2007.

Bulgaria, 2005 once more.

All photos by and copyright Jens Thiel (that happens to be me) if not otherwise stated.

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