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1.6 Stool (https://stacklab.ca/object/one-point-six)

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"The 1.6 counter-height and bar-height stool is a backless variant of the 1.5 dining, occasional chair and bench. 1.5 Chair, the stool is notable for its nuanced simplicity of form, carefully detailed classic wood joinery and precision steel fabrication. There are two repetitions of Module Type A (leg profiles), 16” long x 26” high x 1-3/4” thick; and six repetitions of Module Type B (seat and back profiles), 16” long x 6” high x 1-3/4” thick.

 

These eight modules add up to an overall width of 14”. Constructing the stool from multiple modules in this way is an efficient fabrication technique that produces a dimensionally stable, finished piece from solid hardwood. As part of the design logic behind the 1.6, the side and rear profiles express the structural capacities of both materials. Because steel is stronger than wood, the steel leg has a narrower profile than the wooden leg, and the thickness of the wood components decreases along the length of the steel supports."

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After receiving some customer requests, and dealer interest, we began exploring how to integrate a back option to both the bar height, and counter height stools. While maintaining the same design logic and manufacturing processes, we began prototyping and designing 3 height variants to account for different use cases.