Boraatii Stool Color:Black hard-working pruners combine high-carbon steel

hard-working pruners combine high-carbon steel with a bypass blade for clean cuts

in the year it was designed

Published in 1973

Mondrian is an artist represented in MoMA's collection

with one slot for a 15" laptop

Boraatii Stool Color:Black hard-working pruners combine high-carbon steelDesigner Jomo Tariku learned his craft while growing up in Ethiopia, during summer breaks at a local furniture builder in Addis Ababa. He later went on to study industrial design at the University of Kansas and is now based in Virginia. For this Boraatii Stool, Tariku was inspired by a headrest, carved from a single piece of wood by an Oromo artist, used in the late 19th century to preserve the elaborate hairstyle of its owner while they slept. (Oromo