Love it, hate it... either way, we really want to sit on it. Re-spotted last week in the Times Style Mag, which has a great write up of Constantin Grcic, the Miura stool, a "gawky plastic stool," has been a big hit and called by Jasper Morrison the "best new design project of the past year."
Made of injection molded polypropelene, the Miura is manufactured by Plank, comes in a lovely variety of colors and we're still looking for it in the US, while Conran sells it on their site for 145.
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Another example of design discrimination against the US. Those taste-maker Europeans holding back the good stuff because of our backwards leadership.
Obama for President!
i don't understand how one would sit on it?
i have to say i would feel so. incredibly. country/white trash/gauche if i walked into a restaurant or someone's home and was expected to use one of these.
maybe that's the point? or maybe i'm just really dense?
No, this is Nuni, I'm Nuni.
What I love is that the images on the site linked from "Miura" do not include anyone actually sitting on the stool. I'll bet they don't know how to sit on it either.
It seems pretty obvious to me how to sit on it. The foot rest goes in front where your feet are, and the back of the seat is turned up.
Just because an object doesn't look like we think it should, doesn't mean that it is hard to determine its usage. There are visual clues all over this stool. It might actually be comfortable.
I am loathe to say say this, but is a matter of thinking "outside the box".
The stool looks neat. But £145 for a piece of injection-molded plastic? Even $USD 20 a piece would be a stretch.
thinking outside the box is great and all, but at the same time, people should be able to look at a piece of furniture and immediately understand how to use it. if i walk into your living room and wonder, "what IS that?" about something i'm supposed to sit on, i won't feel very much at home.
another part of this might be that i'm short -- when i sit on a bar stool, i generally have to perch. this doesn't look like something i'd want to perch on, and a large part of my confusion about it has to do with how you'd get up there, and how you'd balance once you've arrived if you can't put a foot on the ground for stability.
this thing looks like it would be very uncomfortable to sit on for a long stretch (at the bar, say)
Anyone know a retailer I can buy these from? The MoMa store and Conran no longer carry them, so I can only find European online retailers selling for exorbitant prices.
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