This stool is designed to let you sit cross-legged while eating! - Yanko Design

Product blueprint is almost always influenced by the culture of the region information technology comes from. Sometimes even defining that culture. We, humans, have been making things that suit our lifestyle needs for ages, and timeless objects take been seamlessly amalgamating in our ways of life always since. And when in that location is more than one way of doing something, a certain subconscious agreement develops of performing something in set ways. The result is an apparent and contrasting style of life involving humans and the things around them. But, every once in a while something comes forth that changes the status quo. It is either something completely new or a confluence of many things we are already used to.

Designer Estab Han has observed something very similar and created a fusion of 2 very singled-out settings human beings are used to in the context of eating while seated. He has created a product that brings together unlike aspects of seating merged into each other creating a new human experience built upon one-time methods – bringing cross-legged sitting to a modern stool design and is influenced by the environment of the Eulji-ro region of Seoul, Korea. Although non limited to that region, a very common product used by many small-scale restaurants for outside seating is the ubiquitous four-legged stool. Whereas quite prominent in eastern cultures, some other way of eating especially while inside the restaurant is the cross-legged seated position. It is the standard practice there in restaurants and at homes so much so that they call it the aloof method.

Han has brought together these two styles of seating, the old and the new, and created a novel hybrid stool that caters to both of them. The production, called the 'Eulji-ro Stool' has 2 parts, one a standard four-legged stool and the other, also a stool but with a circular profile and a petty cutaway section on the pinnacle. You can apply the 'Eulji-ro Stool' in two ways – y'all can utilise both the parts separately if there are more people. And when yous want to sit down cross-legged, you can combine the ii by inserting the leg from i into the cut section of the other. This inserting of the stool keeps the design in identify while y'all accommodate yourself while sitting. Moreover, the stools are designed to be stackable and hence can be tucked away inside the eating place at the end of the day. With this fine combination of unlike styles, you tin can now experience eating in the aloof means anywhere!

Designer: Estab Han of Weekend-Works