Stool AA STOOL

The shape gives the series its name: The AA STOOL series is characterized by its archetypal reduced form and consists of a few connected wooden components. Always delivered in pairs and available in three different heights, the pieces of furniture can be interlocked, can be used in rows or individually and - like all pieces of furniture from the ISHINOMAKI LAB series - serve in many places in living and working spaces. Whether as a seat at the table, in break or meeting rooms at a greater height to the round set up or at the kitchen counter at the highest height - hardly a place where the stool insert could not be imagined. Also as a furniture element, for the construction of shelves or as table trestles - the stools AA STOOL offer themselves for endless applications.

Building your own furniture to make the world a little better is what designers and thinkers Enzo Mari and Victor Papanek were all about. Japanese architect Keiji Ashizawa took the idea a bit further: when an earthquake destroyed parts of Japan eleven years ago, he helped residents rebuild their cities with homemade furniture. In the meantime, the designs of the "Ishinomaki Lab" are also manufactured in Germany - from local woods by hand.

To this day, the designs are produced in Ishinomaki. But not only there: with the help of the "Made in Local" initiative, the "Ishinomaki Lab" shares its know-how with partners all over the world. A movement that promotes local craftsmanship. For example, the AA STOOL, designed by Torafu Architects, as well as the other products in our range, are manufactured in Germany by HLZFR.

With its exposed screws, natural wood and handcrafted look, these furniture types show how beautifully simple can be.

The spirit of do-it-yourself - "Monozukuri" in Japanese - is also exported all over the world by the "Ishinomaki Lab". In addition to regular DIY woodworking and furniture-making workshops in Ishinomaki and Tokyo, there have been similar projects in Manila, Singapore, Berlin, London, Guadalajara, Busan, Copenhagen and Detroit. "People didn't just make things in the workshops," Ashizawa says. "But also learned that design can solve problems." In this way, the "Ishinomaki Lab" shows not only the profound impact craft can have on our lives - but also how design can be reimagined in an environmentally and community friendly way.