Beetle Stool / Keverkruk

The Beetle Stool is an ode to the wondrous creature that drew me deeper into nature.

My fascination with nature started as a child by investigating the forests with a tiny pocket microscope.

20 years later it forms a major inspiration. From a combination of material experiments, memories and fascination, I designed a stool with subtle, almost childish details of a beetle.

Three legs and a seat were cut separately from a 5mm stainless steel plate, then folded, welded, grinded and polished. Finally, they underwent heat treatment to extract their color. The coloring process is a heat treatment that extracts the color from the stainless steel. It is identical to how we see the colors of insects. Light interference. Light waves that we see as color. To be able to see this, the beetle stools do not have a protective coating, otherwise they would not be so vivid. This allows the patina to remain ‘alive’ and change in the future due to the acidity of your hands.