'peasant collection' consisting of 3 stools, a vanity and side table uses familiar shapes
balanced off with slightly surreal and off-kilter features. the image of crooked slats in
a weathered picket fence originally impelled designer alissia melka-teichroew to explore
the idea of asymmetrical wood pieces supporting each other. she found a similar kind of
irregularity and balancing act in the old-fashioned one-legged milk stool. by merging the
two concepts she arrived at her current stool design, a sturdy but uneven chair propped
up by expressive and lopsided legs. the design evolved into a larger milk bench with
similarly jumbled legs that almost look like they are moving on their own. out of these
objects grew a whole family of furniture pieces.
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