Old African Ashanti Stool in Wood

Pine stool from the 60s. Its color is bright and warm, its lines are trendy and modern. Aesthetic, stable, solid and practical, the stool will easily find its place in the living...

Wooden bowl handcrafted in Africa in the 1950s. With its raw shape and organic hue, it will be perfect in a natural, refined and delicate decoration. Ideal in a wabi-sabi decoration...

Wooden bowl handcrafted in Africa in the 1950s. With its raw shape and organic hue, it will be perfect in a natural, refined and delicate decoration. Ideal in a wabi-sabi decoration...

Solid wood mortar produced in Africa in the 1950s. With its raw shape and organic hue, it will be perfect in a natural, refined and delicate decoration. We simply imagine it plac...

Solid wood mortar produced in Africa in the 1950s. With its raw shape and organic hue, it will be perfect in a natural, refined and delicate decoration. We simply imagine it plac...

Caned wooden bistro chair from the 1900s. The three chairs on the left are produced by Fischel, the one on the right by Mundus. The chair will be...

Ashanti wood stools West Africa, Ghana.

Ashanti Wood Stools West Africa, Ghana

Ashanti wood stools West Africa, Ghana.

Ashanti wood stools West Africa, Ghana.

An indicator of status and family, stools play an integral role in traditional Ashanti culture. Believed to be the resting place for a person's soul, a stool is given to a child when they first learn to crawl and used in personal milestones throughout the rest of their life. Carved from a solid block of wood, each stool has a rectangular base and a distinctive curved seat supported by a central column and four corner posts. While some ceremonial stools are carved to convey particular proverbs, this stool is simply decorated with scalloped edges, geometric patterns, and a small cross. The combination of shapes and curved lines makes this Ashanti stool...

African Ashanti-Asante style wooden stool A 20th century Ashanti form wooden stool with a wide, rectangular and curved seat on a rectangular base plate in between a round central ...