Shin Azumi's AP stool for Lapalma is created from a single sheet of plywood.

'Wedge' a multifunctional stool/side table by Vaugh Shannon

Life After Corkage Bar Stool + Ottoman by Phase Design. Vinyl-coated threaded polyester mesh filled with twelve-hundred recycled wine and champagne corks.

Sheep stool for Green Furniture Sweden by Rimgaile Samsonite.

Tanimatsumura's Waft Stool.

Meditation Everyday from Haeyoen Kim allows the subtle and smooth movement in diverse directions while sitting. The width is suitable for the cross-legged position which is the first step of the meditation.

Toad Stools for kids!

CUT(C) stool by londonian designers from Lambria Design. A seat made from reclaimed cuts of crushed cork.

'Pinocchio' stool by lithuanian designers from onetwo. A tiny wooden modular stool inspired by Carlo Collodi, creator of Pinocchio.

h220430's rubber stool is cute and practical.

Maple stool by Line Depping is a stool in turned maple with a loose seat that is attached with a ball-and-socket joint. Thus, the seat moves when the user sits on it, and the purpose of the stool is to make sitting more active.

Happy is an adorable little stackable three legged stool. Creative and clean design with an elegant meeting between oak and the top surface. Designed by Swedish design studio A2 Designers.

One hundred triangles stool is a series of stool generated by an algorithm by Riccardo Bovo.

FEATUREDPour Celain by gregorysung ~ something so lovely about the way the korean porcelain and italian wood come together in this stool ~ see it right side up...

VIDEOVideo by Studio Geenen showing the development process of the Gaudi Stool. From design, through modeling, to the final product.

Sgabellox stool you can hang on wall or carry it along. From CLAB4Design.

The Zuiderzee Stool by Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters is based on a simple milking stool located in the Zuiderzeemuseum depots.

'rik' by inon rettig from israel is one of the 240 shortlisted entries from more than 5100 participants in the recent designboom competition 'design for all' in collaboration with seoul design fair 2010.

Rettig developed a new technic of leaving a part of the mold inside the stool using a standart vacum forming machine

Belgian designer, Kaspar Hamacher creates unique wooden furniture called “ausgebrannt,” which means “burned out” in German. Fire used to burn certain parts of the trunk to form a hole which will then form the legs of the table or stool.

Stepladder and stool by object creative with design focusing on living outside of the closet. Bold and contrasting materials: maple and lacquer.

Nice stool from the 'Naoshima' collection by Emiliana Design Studio for Ziru furniture.

Makr Studio Work Stool ~ made to order in White Walnut... 20 available.

'Studio Stool' by MAKR is available for pre-order. Handmade in Charleston, South Carolina.

This is an original, atypical kind of stool that creates strange expectations as to its function and appearance, It combines the use of cork with metal, in shapes and colours that customize the item, giving it a fun, playful character.

The CATERPILLAR TRESTLE is a table trestle consisting of a bundle of legs that seem to be set in perpetual motion. It can also be used as an informal stool.

The CATERPILLAR series of benches and tables elaborates on the notion of lightness and redundancy.

Handmade Rian RTA Artist Series stool - First in series features Mike Perry's surf-themed design. Perry illustrated 20 stools with 15% of proceeds going to Surfrider Foundation.

Chris Jackson of Hastell.com designed this “a” stool. It’s a Helvetica LT bold lower case ‘a’ stool.

Polish designers Sylwia Kowalczyk-Gajda and Dorota Terlecka of Biuro-K have designed the SID Stool and Table.

Dutch designer Bram Geenen has a follow-up piece to the Gaudi Stool that he introduced in 2009, the Gaudi Chair is made by the same principles, but includes a small backrest.

Debuting at this year's DMY Berlin is the Cloud Stool by Studio Joon & Jung. The highlight of the seat is its cushion which is constructed of grey and white stuffed cords, knotted and twisted to resemble cloudscape.

New York based designer Alvaro Uribe shows us his astonishing carbon fiber Plum stool. Between lightness and performance.

We love the stool Volubilis, imagined by the designer Benoit Convers for IBRIDE...

The Design Glide bar stool by Haziza is distilled to its essence. Available in twelve unique colors including Tangerine, Flamingo, Passion Pink, Crimson, Sapphire, Orchid, Sky, Marine, Honey, Iguana, Fig, and Greek Urn.

One_Shot.MGX by Materialise is a foldable stool that is 3d printed. The stool emerges from the machine in its final form, complete with hinges that are concealed by the graceful structure of the stool itself.

Japanese designer Masaka Zuhori has dedicated his entire collection to the silhouette of dogs! ”Osanpo” is a stool which is inspired by four different dogs- Labrador Retriever, Bulldog, Dachshund and Chihuahua.

We love "Still lives" from Kraud, a life-sized pig leather stool from german Design label Kraud (Yvonne Fehling & Jennie Peiz).

Peter J Pless' Tryst stool is a fun twist on the traditional wooden stool, suddenly creating an intimate seating space for two to scheme or whisper sweet nothings... balancing each other (alone you WILL topple, i tried it!)

At Salone Satellite, Salone del Mobile you will find two versions of the Different Angles Screen, the Imaginary Friend Children’s Stool and other new objects from Act. Go behind the scenes and have a look into our design process.

The Firewood Stool by Oliver Conrad is a unique piece and looks really adorable.

Giorgio Biscaro will exhibit his new collection at Salone Satellite 2010. Offset Stool is made by bending, cutting and assembling a single plywood sheet. The packaging is minimal, and it is a highly sustainable product.

Plinto, a new stool designed by Luca Nichetto for Skitsch will be presented in occasion of 2010 Milan Design Week.

cho hyung suk design shows us their curved frame series consisting of a chaise lounge, stool and a table where the upholstered blocks of each are held together by stainless steel frames.

Juan Stool: Foldable. Stackable. Easy to store when flat. And it only costs $50.

Objective of the 'A' series: utility and refine user experience. 'A' narrow bar height table can be engaged from either direction. 'A' bench is a bar stool height long bench that keeps those seated at the same eye level as those standing.

BUM is a stool by dutch designer Evelien Stamhuis. Every BUM is handmade, that's why each one has an own personality. Perfect for kids and grown-ups as well.

A stunning sustainable stool concept by Nathalie Nahas, made of felt and steel.

This flat pack stool is light, easy to assemble and transport. The distinctive characteristic of the ‘1-2-3 sit’ stool is the dovetail joint with combined folded steel and oak wood.

Very cool new desings of a rocking chair and bar stool by design firm Supernatural Studios.

The xylem project is neither a table, a bench or a stool; it’s a family of objects which can be co-designed by the clients, using a custom built software, to best suit their needs and tastes.

Stool #9 Furniture by Brazilian Designer Rodrigo Silveira.

Both precise and imperfect. The pitch stool/side table, made from reclaimed wood. By American designer Nicolai Czumaj-Bront.

Nittonº - A stool designed to minimize material and allow maximum weight. Put it together and create patterns in the room, nineteen stools makes a circle. Designed by Karl-Oskar

the 4 young Berlin-based designers of Llot Llov presented ‘Hopper’, a kind of ready-made stool, based on the principle of the shopping baskets commonly found in supermarkets. Tension belts keep the rabbit fur on the seating in place.

The Gaudi Stool by Bram Geenen benefits from the beam-grid substructure-style that support its thin carbon fiber shell.

Designed by Tomas Kral, this ARRAY Stool is created from 3 repetition of single sheet aluminium. Easy to assemble & a big save of packaging cost.

Lost & Found stool was inspired by "a scene from the start of the leather industry in Holland: the hard labour world with heavyweight machines making shoes to last a lifetime."

Introducing wooddrop14, a solid wood stool/side table. designed by a. jacob marks for n.c. based skram. shown here in lacquered american beech (foreground) and torched oak (background). available direct from skram.

Steamer trays and wooden chopsticks are some of the most ubiquitous trash objects in China – and are thus the perfect candidates to upcycle into something useful and durable like this simple stool – by B.A.S.E

Mutant stool by Joel Escalona; comes with some extra legs.

greek designer, yiannis ghikas, has created monarchy, a rocking stool that is designed not to be overturned but at the same time allows the user to escape the dullness of the ultimate stability.

The sandcastle stool: Basing the design on a sandcastle bucket, designandstuff created a solution which is stackable, can store other beach items, and creates huge sandcastles!

Stool, table, bookshelf; call it what you want!
Truly Multifunctional!

The perfect stool for the roadie in you! Made currently by Zanotta in Italy, originally designed in 1957 by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in, you can't help but love this thing!

Stool Qoffee a gigantic plastic cup manufactured by Artificial and designed in 1999 by Rainer Spehl. Qoffee can be used a stool but it can also be used as waste paper basket, container or even as a flower pot.

For the first time in its existence the Belgian manufacturer Quinze & Milan goes concrete!
Gitta Gschwendtner has created concrete and woodcrete stools cast from moulds based on paper shopping bags...

FASE stool, designed for the Mexican furniture brand VROK. Made in wood and stainles steel.

On fun ICFF finds ~ the Ergo Ergo ~ is a new hybrid stool/exercise ball like contraption you can sit/bounce/balance on while working... It was a hilarious booth with people of all shapes and sizes trying out the many they had out! Quite comfy... a little odd...

Inspired by his memories growing up in the countryside with his grandparents, Korean designer Kwangho Lee has transformed the leftovers from a typical harvest into a beautiful stool.

A flat folding stool by Serdar Sişman

The MOMA collection, by Javier Mariscal is a series of versatile enough outdoor furniture that can be either use as outdoor table & stool or flower pots

French 5.5 Designers interpret the French Open (Roland Garros) in 3 sets. The ball tubes turn to caraf and glasses, racket to stool, and the score board plans your days.

The Circa 15th Century stool by Kochi Architect's Studio, refer to classical shape in Europe of the 15th century "Renaissance". There are "old and new" "abstract and embodiment" "ornament and anti-ornament" "reality and unreality" in it.

2-dimensinoal material in 3-dimensional movement. A stool with a moving seating surface.

RIENT Stool discusses chair proportions and stool functionality in a product inspired by asian architecture and evoking images of 1930's leather strapped luggage. RIENT Stoool is made primarily from 100% recycled Polyethylene.

Sweet stool is inspired on making ice cream. At Spell we like to say Sweet is dipped in pleasure. This stool is part of the let's celebrate collection and available in a broad variety of tasty colours.

Slide will be presenting 3 new designs by Karim Rashid at the Salone del Mobile including the rotational molded Koncord stool.

Banba design by Tomita Kazuhiko...the stool that looks like a planter box for balcony or pool-side where it does look ideal for. The volumized fabric on top is comfortable + useful to pick up the lid.

'Wrapped' by Floris Hovers together with Vij5.
By wrapping approximately 110 meters of rope around some separate wooden parts, this stool is being fixed without using glue or screws!

Adrian Rayment, along with his father Ron, produce handcrafted metal wirework furniture at their studio in the seaside town of Ramsgate, England. Seen here is the Hero Chair and matching stool.

FEATUREDThe iconic library stool ~ Cramer Inc's Kik-Step Rolling Stool has a 50th Anniversary Library Edition where classic quotes are molded into the non-skid tread!

The Momentum stool from cate&nelson presents a challenge to the users who must work together to keep the seating steady.

83 Design studio created conceptual furniture design that refresh our childhood memories. The stool “Hikoki” (aeroplane) and “Kataguruma” (piggyback) are designs based on childhood memories of playing with parents.

OFFI Snap Step Stool - Blue ~ adorable little semi-DIY stool for kids ~ so cute and on sale!

Studio Voortman & Girod created Ssstoell and Kkkrukk - a chair and stool designed to look like multiple iterations of the same object just repeated and slightly shifted - a comment on digital copying and pasting.

This stool makes me happy, Designer: Natalie Kruch
A playful disposition. Over 500 balloons are tied on
a solid wood stool.

Awesome toy sheep stool! and equally brilliant as those eyes... so looking down on you, yet so hilarious...

Swedish Jarl Fernaeus has designed a table, stool and lamp and made the final 17 of the Prix Emile Hermes competition. The elegant and tidy looking furniture group in the hallway takes care of chargers for mobile phones, iPods and cameras.

The ICE bench, by Madelen Schelin - a Plexiglas base with faux-suede cushions, available in ten different colors.

'Emergency Stool' By d.e. Sellers made from a laser cut panel of Baltic Birch plywood. Can be displayed as a wall covering or broken apart and assembled into a stool, just follow laser etched graphic instructions.

schindlersalmerón's light and stackable aluminium stool is assembled from three identical aluminium sheets that stabilize each other through spatial folding.

Macalula's "Buttom Stool" - inspired by buttons - the perforations in the seat make for a perfect outdoor chair, allowing water to pass through, keeping the seat dry.

Jeroen Wesselink's My Deer is a fascinating product ~ its a fully functional simple modern stool... and when not in use, hang it on the wall, and it looks like a deer head!

sadeh halbrecht's stool - Sustainable: use, reuse, back to natural environment, and questions the border between nature and in-house environment. by

Chris Ruhe's Sahara Stool, a flexible, wood stool.

I love things that are adorably efficient, if that makes any sense. Designed by Joel Escalona, this piggy bank can also function as a stool - all while looking good in any setting whether you're six or sixty.

a mobile coat rack and
stool named ‘sprout’. the design is built using ash and molded cork

Artek and Marimekko have an exhibition - Be Honest! - going on at the Spiral Garden in Tokyo, featuring interventions by various designers on Alvar Aalto's iconic Stool 60. The exhibition is on until 09/23.

Stingray Stool in Tulip. Also available in Birch and in coloured resin

Ryan Frank's Isabella stool, launching this September at the London Design Festival. Isabella is made out of Strawboard, a sustainable formaldehyde-free material made entirely from compressed straw.

Fernando Akasaka has created the Cowboy Junkie concept stool... Stirrups and all...

MONOCLE Magazine and Artek Furniture teamed up together for the launch of a stool in celebration of the magazine's one year anniversary. Avaialble in an edition of 60, it comes with a seat made from Finnish moose leather. Beautiful.

FEATUREDCul is Cool ~ check out this expanded polypropylene stool from Ramon Ubeda and Otto Canalda for ABR ~ as well as many other playful pics i have from the Conran Shop's ROJO Exhibit.

FEATUREDArtek celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the Iconic Stool 60 by constructing an installation of hundreds of them in Gansevoort Square... so tempting to climb up on them. See the pics of it up close!

Windwheel stool concept by Choi Seoghwan. A multi-functional furniture that consist a stool, table and book container. Calling it the “Pinwheel Whirling In The Wind” because its resemble a shape of windwheel.

The Snow Stool by Baek-Ki Kim was inspired by a scene of ‘ Korean traditional food jars on a terrace covered in snow. It is a dual functional stool can be used both as a stool and a storage container if you want.

Yet another cool piece of animal shaped furniture. This one is the Sultan Dog Stool from Ibride. Available in red or black.

Gran Turismo by Swedish Mårten Claesson is a nice and clean line of furniture. Available as easy chair, stool, bench, 2 and 3 seat sofa and table.

smarties stool.....sit down on a candy!!!!
design by Francesco Castiglione Morelli

Denis Santachiara has designed this stool with a pair of pedals. It allows to make exercise being steady.

The Googie; a retro toy-stool for kids. I know mine would love one.

Banqueta - one piece seat is a cool bar stool designed by the Argentinean Juan Pablo Sammartino.

FEATUREDSassa pail - part pail part stool... and the first post by our friends at Sub-Studio!

Sheep stool - designer: - Hanns-Peter Krafft, 1982 - materials: Real sheep-skin over a body of jute skin filled with wood shavings, with head and legs in solid wood. Ears are made of leather.

EMERGENCY STOOL BY DES FURNITURE

New Kinkyform collaboration feat. artists NoPattern and Faceless. A minimal stool with artwork laser etched into it's top. Visit the site for more impressions

Somewhere between Mies van der Rohe and Lego. No nails, no glue, everything is done by hand. 28 blocks = 1 stool, 130 blocks = 1 armchair, 10 blocks = 1 lamp!

The smorkin' labbit gets bigger and bigger ~ now in stool form.

Search the right balance point in this Headstand, a fun and dynamic stool.

Ron Arad brings this simple fastener into focus with the eponymous Screw stool. Made from mirror polished aluminum and satin stainless steel. Only $1539

One Shot stool by Patrick Jouin for MGX. The stool is made in a single piece using laser syntering, and opens and closes like an umbrella.

this week's personal shopper features stylish uses or "reclamations" of wood. this egg stool or side-table is one of the most sensuous pieces i've ever seen. i just want to touch it...

Design student 1, metal stool 0. Clearly we have a winner against sore buns. CritBuns

Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni - Mezzadro Stool

Outdoor stool

Cmd-SIT stool, available in all the macbook colors, and is now for sale at DUENDE.jp

(suspender) strap on milk stool.

waterbottle stool?

Budmen's Scoria Stools are 3D printed furniture finished with a structural resin that makes for durable and unique product

Phillip Grass Companion Stools are adorable cyclopses. The seats are available in oak, beech and sipo mahogany. The base is made of powdercoated steel tubes.

Float Stools by Nendo for Moroso - " By utilizing the structure of the cantilever that only supports the back legs a cushiony feel has been given"

The Russian design studio Svoya presents the creation IZLOM, a collection of raw and graphic stools combining solid wood and metal.

The Stockholm based design studio Form Us With Love and IKEA are collaborating to create a new collection of chairs and stools.

Stools and benches with seats made from roofing tiles from Tsuyoshi Hayashi.

'Tchancayres' stools by French designer Florent Degourc, exhibited on 'NOW! Le off' for Paris Design Week.

VIDEOStudio Swine's Can City - A portable device that can turn aluminum cans, etc into other objects (i.e. stools) right in the street!

FEATUREDKamina & C Bambi and Sheep Stools are ridiculously adorable (and you can't not smile looking at it) in person! Perfect for little kids...

Reclaim NYC asked designers to team up and create works for charity based on the idea of collaboration. All proceeds from the exhibit will go towards NYC Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Here are BUM stools by UM Project and BAGGU!

FEATUREDThis week's NOTCOT.org roundup ~ from GTA V to april fools’ jokes like google maps going treasure map, bone inspired goods, tangram fruit rollups, ikea stools into kids bikes, public swings that can turn into a band and so much more!

Draisienne. Hack of two IKEA stools, using 3D printed parts and a lot of creativity. By Samuel Bernier and Andreas Bhend.

bram/stijn introduce a series of easy-to-assemble furniture. Stools, benches, tables and cabinets made from a few compartments. ‘Seats and stripes' comes as a flatpack and sets up in a blink of an eye.

Stools hand made using reclaimed wood from recycling label 'produktwerft'. Designed by Sascha Akkermann.

Rings, a series of stools inspired by natural tree rings for Artek by Nao Tamura.

Shigeki Fujishiro's aluminum Eiffel stacking stools for RS Barcelona.

Wire Stump furniture, tree stump inspired stools by Peter Jakubik.