kitchen stool

Every year, I gift a new chair for my wife's birthday, and sometimes that chair unexpectedly become a product at KOMA. It's unexpected, because this chair is not for customers or for contests, and have no intention of developing new products,  I challenge new structures with no pressure. Which often leads to a failure. 

This time, I designed it with an image of my wife sitting on the chair while cooking or drinking beer with a book in her hand. I set the seat high at 600mm. The middle plate will be 400mm below that, so she could sit as she was on a normal chair. The biggest challenge was that every material used were thin as 22mm, and assembled with minimum parts which was four legs, the seat and a middle plate. I decided to remove both architrave and stretchers, and assemble the seat, middle plate directly to the legs. 

Legs and seat are assembled in 'Arigumi', middle plate are done in 'Aikaki', which surprised me with the level of strength it creates. Also, hiding the 'Arigumi' solved the problem of deviating over time. It's such a pleasure when I come up with a new way after several trial and errors.  

When you commit to every little detail, simple materials could add up to a grand appearance. I realize once again that God is in the details.