The tilting stool is a direct response to rod steel as a material. Rigid and sturdy, the stools are composed of four members: two verticle leg/handhold members, and two circle/oval seat/footprint members. Both seats are designed to engage the users core muscles. In the shell seat its simply the traditional cross legged lotus, but in the tilt stool the user can spin around, and change the seats orinetation quickly with ab and leg muscles alone. I'm all about active and physical furniture that makes the user more aware of his scale within a space, and his energy exerted on his physical environment,
Additionally, steel as a cheap and durable construction material led me to generate a design from the least quantity of members, and requiring the least amount of time to assemble. Each stool unit has eight point welds, translating to a few hours in bending time and only one hour in weld time. This kind of unit uses maybe ten dollars in rod steel and a few work hours in fabrication time.
I experiemented with seat types, and decided that a natural material, that celebrates the handmade would be appropriate in bringing an otherwise cold modern material like steel into a domestic space. This kind of peice would do well in pairs in a carpeted den or common room, where a fun interactive stool set would allow people to be both active and social in their living space.
