Animals Stool
The Animals Stool is the first piece in the Animals series, created by devising a method that interprets a classic French stool and bench typology, the kind seen across the brocantes of Paris.
Those pieces are utilitarian and everywhere, and they are almost always built the same way, with a turned or squared leg seated into a carved mortise. We wanted the structure without the carving.
Instead of carving a mortise in the seat for each leg, we collect and cut studio scraps at a ten degree angle and carefully compose them in a patchwork that captures the leg. It saves the rigorous carving, fits tight, and it holds a reclaimed leg of any dimension, so almost nothing has to be refined away. Nothing is carved to fit. The scrap keeps its shape and becomes the piece.
We named the series Animals because it works like a biological process. A system that adapts to whatever material is available, absorbing waste back into itself while making no new waste. It is the bottom feeder of our studio. In the maritimes of Canada, where Paul grew up, the lobster was the classic tale of a bottom feeder that became prized. This is the same idea.
There is value in the wood we would typically throw away. Offcuts from the workshop, and solid timber we collect from buildings being demolished. We lay out our components to minimise waste, but some is inevitable, and rather than throw it out we built a way to use it in a way the wood deserves. The value is not in the material. It is in what you make of it.
That constraint is what makes the series work. The material sets the composition rather than the reverse, and no two pieces read alike because no two salvaged wood pieces are the same.
The Animals series is ongoing. It began with a bench and a stool, and now includes a console. More to come.
Hand-built and hand-finished in our atelier in Paris. Studio Goons is a Paris-based collectible furniture and design atelier founded in 2020 by architect Paul Trussler and designer Mia Kim. Every piece is made to order, signed and numbered.
- Material
- Architectural Reclaimed Wood, Scandinavian Birch Plywood
- Dimensions
- 37.5 × 23.5 × 29 cm or Custom Dimensions
- Finish
- Matte Charcoal or Custom Finish
- Lead Time
- 3 to 4 weeks
- Edition
- Signed, numbered
- Made in
- France
- Price
- €2,295
- Availability
- In Stock
Standard finishes shown. Custom finishes and materials available on request.
Each work, made to measure. Dimensions, finishes, and materials are resolved in conversation with the studio.
