17 Transformative Rustic Seats Blending Materiality and Craftsmanship

The Wormhole Bench is made from solid red oak, laminated and carved. The seat of the bench is punctuated with orifices that disrupt its surface and allow a glimpse through the seat. 

This chair is part of the Carpet Matter collection, realised using carpet waste and off-cuts collected from events and temporary sets.

Neolithic Thinker is a stool hand sculpted from red tezontle stone, a highly oxidized and porous volcanic rock endemic to Mexico. Its design draws from different historical references coming together in a syncretic form that is at once primitive, modern, and prehispanic.

Toasted Furniture is a project that combines innovation, design and ecology. Everyday waste plastics – for example, the packaging of cleaning products – are recycled with the help of an innovative and simple device.

The “Mother” bench is inspired by Caroline Kable’s traumatic brain injury. During her recovery, she has been marrying her poetry and love for stone.

The design is a Rustic type chair with three feet. It is beige and red and is Carl Hultin’s first attempt at painting over metal.

This stool is inspired by the ancient technique of wood carving and adapted to the contemporary aesthetic. This particular stool is hand-carved out from solid wood.

Mediterranean-inspired, the “Confidente”, a two-seater chair made of raw earth oils and natural waxes, is a metaphor and abstraction of the collective dwellings typical of Morocco.

The “Knot Round Stool” highlights the quality of a wood knot, the character of which is often treated as a defect and neutralized in industrial processing.

“Tori” is a Rustic sand-casted aluminium stool, created using the lost foam technique and inspired by the Japanese arch that marks the boundary between the profane and the sacred space.

This Rustic piece has been produced during the “Design Labs” initiative by Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council.

Expanding the Windows of Bo Bardi series, the objects take a primitive way of taking things one step further: the gestures are connected to youth and a natural state of curiosity, an urge for building.

The starting point of this project is rooted in the designer’s interest in old stucco materials and moulding techniques. It has grown into a fascination with the two-dimensional line of the running mould technique being transformed through a specifically created turning machine into a three-dimensional object.

Domingo Tótora’s “Terrão” bench is made from the designer’s signature material: recycled cardboard, transformed in a certifiably sustainable process.

Stine Mikkelsen has created a collection of Rustic objects inspired by the rough harbour environment on the Danish island where she grew up.

“Prélèvement” is a series of pieces questioning our human ability to perceive functions into shapes. Submitted to melting, pressure and erosion, rocks are shaped without will. Into these unintentional shapes, we nevertheless project meanings