Stools – ddc

Fisheye EXCL Stool

Erin Smith — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:02:57 +0000

10 years after the first presentation of the classic FishEye Stool alcarol present FishEye EXCL. Stool _ Limited Edition.

It is made with the same materials (wooden poles of Venice encased in translucent resin like lagoon water) but with a completely different effect.

For the making of FishEye EXCL. alcarol has exaggerated the reaction of the resin to emphasize the formation of internal cracks like those of a frozen lagoon and also frozen air bubbles released from the cavities that make this wood so unique all over the world.

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Chestnut Stump

Erin Smith — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:53:14 +0000

alcarol recover discarded pieces of Burled Chestnut log from a wetland of the Italian Dolomite countryside and preserve the natural bark surface with its native populations of plants, which are embedded in a transparent resin resembling the habitat water that generated their life.
By filling the gaps with resin, alcarol achieves a new functionality with the poetic choice to freeze time at the end of the materials cycle and giving it a new life before it goes to waste.

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Wetland Stool

Erin Smith — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:52:15 +0000

Abonos is a Celtic name which indicates the fossil wetland wood type of some rare alluvial areas of the Alps, where minerals and water have started the semi-fossilization process of the submerged trees.
This wood has a unique chromatics scale of the woodgrain changing from golden to black with always unique shades that comes to light like a jewel of the past, through a careful, complex work of recovery and processing.
Like the water over millennia, the alcarols transparent resin surrounds the organic shapes of this unique wood, preserving and enhancing all its preciousness and charm.

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Surfacing Stump

Erin Smith — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:51:28 +0000

After the terrible flood of 2018, alcarol has recovered some discarded pieces of logs from the undergrowth of the Italian Dolomite mountains and has preserved the natural bark surface with their native populations of plants, which are embedded in a resin resembling the water that created and ended his life. All environmental traces on the raw material are thoroughly studied to discover and preserve the specific Genius Loci.
According to the alcarol concept of environmental cross-section, the natural wood surface is not covered by resin on the section planes, so you can touch its warm organic vibrancy.
The couple of twin pieces are obtained from the same Acacia trunk, rich in amazing roots.

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Thea Barstool

Erin Smith — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:54:49 +0000

Stool with inside structure in wood and by-products padded in non-deformable foam polyurethane in different density and polyester fibre. Covered by fabric or leather as per samples. Black open pore lacquered oak legs. Anthracite grey lacquered metal footrest. Not removable cover.

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Horizons Pouf

Erin Smith — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:40:54 +0000

Horizons is a reflection on Planetary Geology, a science discipline concerned with the geology and internal structure of celestial bodies such as planets and their moons.

The geo prefix typically indicates topics of or relating to our planet Earth, and this project aims to illustrate through abstraction how similar the geomorphologies of other planets can be. Finally surprising us with an unexpected softness, a completely human pleasure.

The shapes of the reliefs derive from three-dimensional files of some areas of the Italian Alps, made more abstract and mixed with other planetary geologies.

The vertical sides are an abstract representation of typical geological stratigraphies of the solar system planets, where the top surface is soft Velvet, the lower part is recycled soft polyurethane foam, covered with a thin layer of soft rubber mixed with stone powder and real soils which make the colors and textures always unique and completely organic.

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Gaulino Stool

Erin Smith — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:20:30 +0000

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Tibu Stool

Erin Smith — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:13:50 +0000

Swivel bar stool. Adjustable in height with gas piston. Frame in steel painted in polyester powder.

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Dejavu Stool

Erin Smith — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:13:44 +0000

Stool. Legs in extruded aluminium. Seat and footrest in die-cast aluminium.

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Dexter Bar

Erin Smith — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:05:34 +0000

Adjustable barstool created by Draenert part of the iconic Dexter family. Available in different fabrics and leather.

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