Solid walnut stools designed for the job become classics, to be echoed by others for years to come.
They have a brackets app you can use on premise while you watch the games, lots of advertising during overtime periods and, most interesting to me, a stool designed specifically for men who have just had vasectomies.
In the room there are also an Egyptian throne (Mr. Couturier's coffee table) and two stools designed for Elsie de Wolfe, the society decorator.
Writer sits on Seiza bench, a Japanese stool designed to encourage the natural flow of energy.
In her New York office, Martha Stewart uses shelves and stools Prouvé designed for the French postal service.
Should it be an undiscovered gem, like her little kundalini rocking stool (designed to stimulate the libido).
A three-legged wood stool, designed in Holland and made in Senegal, will be available for $350 next month at Jonathan Adler, 465 Broome Street (Greene Street).
Or maybe the WW Stool he designed for Vitra, described as a stool or a "support for users who prefer to stand," priced at an astonishing $4,670.
Hector Serrano wanted the Air stool he designed for Gandia Blasco, a Spanish manufacturer, to look good, but not so good that it competed with its surroundings: "The idea was to create a stool that was understated and visually light enough to complement any setting," he said.
The lobby is warmed up with cork stools designed by Jasper Morrison for and woolly sheep sculptures from Moss with wooden legs and leather ears.
The last lot in the sale may be the most intriguing: a sleek writing desk with one of the two original matching stools that Chareau, a Paris architect, designed for Robert MaroundStevens around 1927.
