Stool With A Handle

Stool With A Handle is a minimal chair created by Copenhagen-based designer Kasper Salto. The exhibition VÆRKTØJ 1 brings together designers Frederik Gustav, Jonas Trampedach, Kasper Salto, and Michael Antrobus to explore the art of metal bending. Centered around the Gressel HB14, a manually operated bar bender commonly used in industrial production, the exhibition examines how this specific tool informs their creative processes. The designers aim to present a unified showcase, despite their individual approaches, by focusing on how tools shape both the evolution of ideas and the final outcome of their designs.

The exhibition highlights the significant influence tools have on the creative process, demonstrating how they contribute to both the method and the result. Stool with a Handle, distills the concept of a chair to its most basic form: a stool with an added handle. This experiment strips away excess, pausing typical functions to achieve clarity in design, revealing the archetype of a chair in its purest sense. The designers seek to show how simplicity can redefine everyday objects by focusing on subtraction rather than addition.

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