Farm Stool

Found on a farm in the Auvergne, this primitive stool was hand-turned in the 1940s in a country where everything was made by hand and very little was thrown away. The three bobbin-turned legs are slightly different from each other, the way only handwork ever is. A stool like this lived close to the hearth, carrying whoever sat down to shell peas, dry off after the rain, or lace up boots before the day began. Sylvie places it beside a reading chair with a small lamp on top and a worn paperback on the seat.

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