On the floor in front of these imposing constructions a blocky stool made of layered lengths of floor boards invites you to have a seat.
Because of their scissorslike principle, scissors chairs lent themselves to collapsible construction and thus appeared as folding stools in the early European Middle Ages, when they were used mainly for liturgical purposes.
Sitting on a bar stool, Carl Schwarz, 27, told the group that he owned a construction company bearing his name and had become an architect, just as Joanna Arlow had written that he would.
By using this technology, we clearly identified more than 40,000 informative sequences on V3-V4 16S rRNA gene region from each stool sample, in the present study and this led to the construction of the phylogenetic core of microbiota [16].
I grinned at my classmate Andrew Malone, a 25-year-old construction worker with a reddish brown goatee who was perched on a stool directly across from me.
CONSTRUCTION of a professional sports arena in downtown Newark -- which became more likely last month when the city secured funds to finance a major portion of construction -- would be "like the third leg being put on a stool," said the veteran broker Dudley D. Ryan of Trammel Crow.
His PK41 folding stool (1961) can trace its lines to the Thebes stool of Pharaonic Egypt, though he substituted the cedar construction of the antique with ribbons of wafer-thin steel, torqued to give it a reflective quality that made it seem lighter than air.
Sometimes, a stool is just a stool.
The stool, which is flat-packed and must be assembled, was inspired by the "reinforcement usually seen under bridges, in tower constructions and in building beams," said Mr. Fujishiro, a designer in Tokyo.
