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Look!: Step Stools at McGill's Library

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On a recent visit to McGill University in Montreal, we stepped into the campus' main library to take a look around. While the entire building is a fine specimen of brutalist architecture, we just couldn't keep our eyes off their minimalist step stools in the aisles...

 
 

The step stools are made of square metal frames finished in a tomato-ey orangey-red that reminds us of what we think of as Donald Judd red. The seats (or steps) are a simple, square wood slab mounted to the frame. We love a few things about these: their rectilinear form, their bright color that punches in the stacks of books (we imagine this may be for safety but it looks good), and their appearance of being a very high backed chair.

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and you can rest your hand on the back while browsing books

posted by Zonn on September 23rd 2008 at 7:34pm
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I go there! I've always loved those chairs. I haven't actually used them to stand, but I have to put books on them. That may be due more to my lack of research than to their lack of usefulness.

posted by bodieschmodie on September 24th 2008 at 6:19am
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