Design surgery: Tied stools are bound to work

In the Just a Stool range wooden legs are bound together using wedges and taut cloth. The legs are held together in different ways, depending on how the cloth is used.

Designer Ran Elimelech, who works as a medic in the West Bank, says his experiences of binding wounds informed the design. ‘Through this project, I am trying to create a binding language between the cloth and the wood,’ Elimelech tells LS:N Global. ‘Whenever you bandage someone, you use stress to create a tourniquet – every wound is different and you have to improvise to reach a solution.’

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