It's always embarrassing when an unexpected number of guests arrive and there aren't enough chairs to go around. Does someone sit on the floor? How many people can squash onto the sofa? With the Stooler around, insufficient seating might never be a problem again.
Spanish designer Andreu Carulla created the Stooler to create stools out of chaos. With its four wooden legs and ratchet cables, the Stooler can repurpose almost any object into a stool. It adjusts to any size, so it can bundle together newspapers, a stump, stuffed animals, or piles of clothes into an artistic-looking seating option.
"That's not a pile of laundry, it's a stool! OK, it's a stool made out of a pile of laundry, but still."
For a more conventional sort of DIY stool, check out our instructions for how to upholster a simple stool. But if you feel like stretching your creative muscles with the Stooler, let us know what you would turn into a stool in the comments.
Read more: The Stooler from Andreu Carulla
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(Images: Andreu Carulla Studio)
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I rarely have anything negative to say on this site but no way. It's ugly and it doesn't look functional. And did I mention it's ugly?
Puhahaha..i am just going to laugh.
you can always grab a few folding stools from Ikea or something if you really need extra seatings.
April fools day is early? This is ugly, and not all that useful. Who wants to sit on a pile of newspapers?
No one said anything about the name of the product yet? I get to be the first to point out the unfortunate connotation "stooler" has?
I would have to totally agree with "hellcat" in that this thing is ugly. I can't imagine using my dirty clothes as a seat for my friends...or the logs etc...
I think it has potential. With the right object used, it could be really interesting. I suspect that it's only real limitation is the creativity of the user. I like the concept of being able to transform something that isn't a seat into a seat.
I'm sure my embarrassment over not having enough seats could be relieved by building a seat out of a nearby pile of laundry. Here's hoping some dirty undies add that pop of color!
Oh the name. Painfully funny and gross. Sorry but this one is a miss.
I like how it transforms something that is a seat into a seat (yoga ball to stool).
Imagine the fun your guests would have, a real ice breaker.
touché
perfection! the object is exactly as hideous as its name!
If you could buy a stooler, couldn't you just buy a stool? I'd rather stand. I give props though to the artist for coming up with it. It's a cool idea, in theory, but that's; it's just design for design sakes, and that's ok too. It's like runway art for interior design.
wobble, wobble, aaahhhhhh!
then again, you might want to save this product for those guests you really hate.
Emperor's New Stool?
I would be so scared to sit on that stump or for my guests to! What if I didnt tighten it enough and they fell to the ground! Yikes!
Not a fan.
Seems it'd be more embarrassing to assign the 'stooler' to a guest. For most of the readership here, if I were a guest, I'd be happy to sit on the floor and play with the 'requisite' cat or dog.
turn any object into a stool! it should be called "the small intestine."
I turn objects into stools every day! But only in the bathroom.
iPad. Stooler. What is with this generation of designers that makes these embarrassing names for their products?
The items the designer uses for his Stooler seats are unconventional, not to mention downright uncomfortable (a bundle of branches, really?), messy (a bale of hay) or redundant (the exercise ball). Inventive design, but a bit lacking in common man functionality. Looking around my apartment, I can't see anything that I could use on it to make it work.
I'll just keep using my dining nook chairs and zabutons (big, thick Japanese sitting pillows) for my self, while my guests get the good seats.
ome no likey