Just three legs in dark walnut wood matched with hundreds of corners and facetings compose the stool designed by Jari Devad. The work’s been presented at the Nikari’s “5 Studies for Nature”, which has picked five projects from all over the world, passing by Helsinki, China, Canada, Milan and in the end Stockholm, where Devad’s stool has stood out between the other proposes. Jari Devad is a young promise of the design, so young that he’s just at his second year in industrial design at the Konstfack University.
Beside the final realization of the stool, Jari studied the traditional Swedish wood carving mastered in the second half of the XIX century by Axel Robert Petersson. He developed the ‘800 artist craftsmanship with new and modern technologies, as for example using 3D modelling. This process allowed to create a perfect and very detailed base for the formation of the stool. Devad’s choice of using dark walnut wood has been dictated by the natural skill of this material to emphasize the angles and reflect the highlight points of the stool’s surface. The polyhydric composition of the surface is, in fact, the first aspect that strikes the public, which follows these corners and lines around all the legs, until the end of their developments.
The stool’s shape is very smart and attractive, it’s impossible to be not captured by his angles and repeating patterns that merge the modern design with the classical and physical art of craftsmanship.
