Of the pieces installed when I visited, the most cleanly conceived tended to look best, among them Dan Bergman's baby-blue weather balloon, which resembles a grounded cloud; Darrell Petit's partially polished stone stool; and Raphaela Pivetta's small plexiglass version of the Twin Towers, which for two decades had provided a distant backdrop to the show.
Stone stool, Crate and Barrel.
One part of the landscape, however, has three drum-shaped stone stools and a stone table with a flat-slab top.
In it, animal skins are used to cover mounds of rock in a landscape and Mr. Sensabaugh sees them as the precursors of stone drum stools.
The first item is a bentwood stool, Stone's modernist riff on a Mediterranean donkey saddle.
"Fecalith is literally a stone made of stool.
Heading to the interior, we stop for lunch in a field where mulberry trees shelter stone tables and stools that shepherds have long used.
They are offering much more authentic food, in carefully-designed settings that draw on fashionable styles like the rustic inn look made popular in Taiwan (think grey stone walls, heavy wooden stools and tables, farm implements on the walls), traditional tea houses, trendy "bubble tea" cafes or sleek Hong Kong dim sum places that would not look out of place in Central.The news is not all sunny.
With its stone walls and mushroom-like stools, it serves dishes you eat with your hands, and pair with a pleasant Sauvignon Blanc from India's Fratelli Wines (dinner for two, about 7,000 rupees).
The show includes antique stools, tables, a lute stand, plant stands, a stone table with an elm base, a foot stool and various basins, all made from various kinds of stone or marble.
You're up on high stools, so, as Patsy Stone said, "The world's your gynaecologist". These counters, Peg says, are made out of thousands of compressed recycled yoghurt pots.
