Sit or stand for a cause?

a sculpture to sit on

Conceived in 2006, as the world's biggest polluters stayed out of, or backed away from, the Kyoto Protocol, this three-legged stool is an exercise in capturing loneliness and a failed struggle toward a common goal.

Inspired by the Japanese art of origami, its folded-paper logic is translated into classic woodwork joinery.

TYPE: STOOL
L/W/H: 80 / 65 / 55 CM
MATERIAL: SLOVENIAN OAK
FINISH: NATURAL BEE WAX

Anatomy of the stool

Alone in Kyoto begins as eight flat pieces. Each one is cut, then joined with twelve biscuit joints and six dowel joints to form the finished stool. The video breaks the stool down section by section, showing how each part fits together and how flat cuts become a three-dimensional object.

Folded in wood

Inspired by the Japanese art of origami, its folded-paper logic is translated into classic woodwork joinery.

Matej Štefanac

Alone in Kyoto stool

€1.830,00

"A stool designed based on the intersections of levels that breathe life into a sculptural and dynamic volume, with a snapping, restless profile, into something that’s poised between origami that becomes furniture and the Czech Cubist Pavel Janák at his best; proof that you can always borrow from the best stories and traditions without feeling their weight, actually achieving amazing projects with respect to today’s customs.

Beppe Finessi, Curator