The TOUCH stool: Portuguese design in Los Angelos

TOUCH have collaborated with the brilliant Portuguese designers studioVerissimo to build a multi-purpose stool called Open. One of the best things about having a blog is that people keep their ear to the ground for new pieces coming on to the scene - thanks N!

Portuguese designers Cláudio Cardoso and Telma Verissimo (Studio Verissimo) designed the stool although TOUCH had it built in a small woodshop in Los Angeles using FSC-certified sugar pine. The stool takes the look and feel of a traditional Portuguese stool and makes it both modern (note the bright colouring of the slots) and multi-functional. The slot cut in one side means that this stool can double as an unusual doorstop. So environmentally sound, designed by a great emerging Portuguese talent and when you're not sitting on it, it'll hold your doors for you. A gentleman of a stool - who'd have thought it?