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It’s all in the hips

Wilkhan’s new stool is bringing a hip aspect, literally, to its new stool design, Stand-Up. The firm believes that the most imaginative ideas come when you are alert and focused, hence this perching stool, which forces you to stay on your toes in every sense. Based on the milking stools of yesteryear, which only worked when both the milker’s feet became part of the equation, the design invites users to forget familiar seating postures and to ‘swing their hips and be creative instead’. Indeed…

 

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