VITRA Hocker Stool - Mod Livin'

Two architects were chosen to share the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Basel, Switzerland. The two men, both born in Basel in 1950, have enjoyed nearly parallel careers, attending the same schools and forming a design partnership in 1978. Their highest profile project was the conversion of the giant Bankside power plant on the River Thames to a new Gallery of Modern Art for the Tate Museum. Part seat and part architectural sculpture, the Hocker starts as a block of birch; it derives it's form in a series of cuts on a lathe. With each step, the object loses material substance while gaining in formal complexity. Designed for Vitra in 2005, the Hocker is available in varnished white or dark brown stain.