In my opinion, the likelihood that a collaboration between an industrial designer and an architect will result in a floor pouf or a paper lantern is quite low. While I’m sure they’d enjoy the cushion and the ambiance, their combined, masterful skills are in the structure and form. Recently, the Swedish Baby stool was released in a series of heights for Lerival by a duo who took time to focus on what they call a “delicate connection”. 

Swedish Baby stools. Designed by St-Ely. Manufactured by Lerival.

Swedish Baby Stools in Table, Counter and Bar Height Have Delicate Wood Joinery

Known by no more than the name of St-Ely, the Montreal, Quebec design team of industrial designer and architect is comprised of Eugénie Manseau and Hubert Pelletier. Their Swedish Baby stools play with the classic design of a three-legged, wooden barstool but with a unique twist that stands out among those who understand the art of wood joinery. St-Ely is described as a design team whose work “is based on their distinct sense of scale and their common search of self-contained beauty through geometry.”

“The side assembly of the legs reveals a delicate connection detail, while the formal language is a play on the tension between the sharp and the soft,” describes Lerival of the Swedish Baby stools and their CNC-milled solid wood construction. While the 17.25″ table height stool is my personal favorite, 26″ counter height and 30″ bar height stools are also available through St-Ely’s US-based manufacturer, Lerival.

Custom colors are available, but most find it is easiest to choose from their offers of unfinished wood, a matte glaze clear finish, or a stained or opaque finish in light gray, charcoal or sunshine.

About the Manufacturer: Lerival is a furniture manufacturing company that works with a contemporary American philosophy when dealing with innovation and aesthetics. In other words, they’re considered “a design house that bridges contemporary furniture and architecture, championing contemporary architecture’s advanced design sensibility, inspired by versatile modularity, personality-driven forms and high performance.”