Avoncroft Birch Step Stool

Two-tier birch wood step stool echoing vernacular country furniture of the late 19th century, which valued straightforward construction, durability and honest materials above fashionable style. The Arts and Crafts movement celebrated this vernacular tradition precisely because it embodied values that industrial production threatened to extinguish, honesty of construction, fitness for purpose and the quiet beauty that comes from materials used as nature intended. Birch, with its clean grain, easy workability and understated good looks, was a staple of Scandinavian and northern European vernacular furniture-making, and the simple step stool has remained essentially unchanged for centuries. Varnished finish. Practical and enduring, and the kind of modest, well-made object that improves any room it is placed in.

Colour:
Birch
45 x 43 x 39.5cm
Requires simple self-assembly
Wood sourced from managed plantations