Chairs, carpets and blinds cleared from homes in the wake of deaths, divorces and bankruptcies form the raw material for these stools by Dutch designer Joost Gehem (+ slideshow). More
Product news: design studio Ryan Harc has created a series of modular stools that fit together to create different pieces of furniture. More
Product news: these A-shaped stools by Japanese studio Torafu Architects slot together to make a bench. More
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five Pilot Stools in collaboration with Belgian design brand Quinze & Milan. More
The next extract chosen by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs from our Book of Ideas is a pewter stool cast in sand on a Cornish beach. More
Product news: New Zealand design studio Timothy John has created a cork and steel stool inspired by the glass beakers used in science experiments. More
Product news: his stool by Norwegian designer Hallgeir Homstvedt is held up by three slim, curved legs inspired by skateboards (+ movie). More
Vienna Design Week: Eindhoven design duo Daphna Laurens collaborated with Austrian furniture company Wittmann to make this duck-like stool and a chair with a bulging backrest. More
Product news: Valencia-based Estudio Sputnik has launched its first collection, which includes a stool and table inspired by a Russian satellite (+ slideshow). More
This milking stool by Danish designer Rasmus B. Fex has interlocking legs like a puzzle. More
German designer Valentin Loellmann used hazel branches to create the knobbly legs of these benches, tables and stools. More
This family of stools by German designer Ellen Heilmann can be used as tables or seats. More
More hidden furniture: French designer Paul Menand has created a stool that hides two others inside it. More
Clumps of human hair are recycled as stuffing for two plastic pouffes by Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz. More
Milan 2012: Eindhoven designers BCXSY worked with traditional Irish boat builders to develop this collection of stools, tables and bowls, which they'll present at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan next week. More
Berlin designer Jannis Hülsen upholstered this stool by using bacteria to grow a cellulose skin over its surface. More
Designer Jólan van der Wiel has sent us this movie of his machine for shaping stools using gravity and magnets, on display as part of the [D3] Contest for young designers at imm cologne in Germany this week.
The Temporium: regular readers might be surprised to see antiques on Dezeen but these wooden stools from our neighbours Chest of Drawers are today's Advent calendar feature from our Christmas shop The Temporium. More
Dezeen Platform: Spanish designer Roger Arquer is next up on Dezeen Platform, our micro-exhibition at Dezeen Space, with his Alba chair and stool. More
These stools by Swedish designers Glimpt are made in Vietnam from rolls of seagrass, bound with the thread that's normally used to make hammocks. More