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We have so many talented designers here and they are all involved in the hundreds of design decisions that take place daily. We send out up to 20 kitchens a week now; that\u2019s a lot of design meetings, lots of site visits, lots of vans on the road and kitchen fitters, not to mention the hundred or so carpenters, painters and stonemasons that all have to work to an exceptional standard. A graduate furniture designer\u2019s dream is to design an iconic chair or stool and to say \u201cThere, that\u2019s my stool\u201d and to be proud of it. This year a few of our talented designers have had the luxury of being able to work on the simplest and most complex of design problems and I have enjoyed the privilege of overseeing this totally satisfying project.<\/p>\n
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Michael, Huw and me have been the main protagonists with invaluable input from Robin, Helen and of course Creedy. They are a pretty special bunch and there probably aren\u2019t many better teams to tackle this age-old project.<\/p>\n
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I have driven this project from day 1; sometimes I take a back seat, but this was to be my stool, driven by my priorities. Day 1 involved sitting on a 3\u201d slab of wet clay. Each day the clay would harden and we would carve bits off and roll up sausages and add bits on. A rudimentary base was thrown together and adjusted daily to reach the optimum seat height and angle and the footrest position. No attention was paid to style, material or method of construction. The shape of the seat is not something that has been designed, it is the seat that bodies, more specifically bums, have formed. Not just my bum, that would be silly, lots of bums.<\/p>\n
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