About the project:
I designed the Rocking Stool at university class called experimental workshops, the main goal was to design a solid stable but agile object. You can read more about the concept at the bottom of the page.
This project was selected to be part of the Design Without Borders international exhibition. https://design-without-borders.eu/new/en/home-en/
Japanese geishas, Africa and my grandfather. These things never had anything to do with each other. They only met in my head, in that infinite container where I store all impressions, experiences and information, just to sometimes I take out a few things and compose something completely different. This was also the case when I started designing this stool. I first took out the earlier memory I had. It was a stool that my grandfather made in his youth, then he used it for the rest of his life, and finally this little object over lived its creator, and has a deep personal meaning to me. The second was a formal preview from Japan, the geisha headrest. It is a tiny trapezoidal platform that is used for sleeping to support the head with a curved bottom and padded top, so it rocks following the movement of the sleeping geisha. It really got me that, it is a stable support, and it’s agile but this makes it so stable. Further researching, I discovered the art of african headrests, finding thousand year old pieces carved from solid wood. Then I learned what a significance these have culturally as personal objects that one makes and then uses for a lifetime. So, these ideas were swirling in my head while designing this object. One that remains, one that’s personal, one that’s stable and agile at the same time.
Consultant teachers: Péter Tímár, Tamás Máté, Tamás Bene