Old African stool, early XX, normal wear

An early Dudouyt stool or table signed Labeillée early manufacture for Dudouytbefore La gentilhommière.

Brutalist stool, circa 1950.

Unsual stools in mahogany with brass feet

Stool, circa 1960-1970 Blackened wood and teak.  

pine stool circa 1950.

Brutalist pine stool, circa 1950. HS 80

African Wooden 'Bamileke' stool, early XX century. The stool is a traditional art populair from Cameroon. These hand-carved stools have long been used as ceremonial seating to indica...

Ethiopian and other African-influenced furniture had been made from the 1850s, the most famous being Adolf Loos's "Theban stool" designed around 1903 in t...

Original hand-carved African 'Dogon' stool, Mali early 20th century. Very nice and large stool carved out of one solid piece of wood. The beautifully round bowled seat is supported b...

A large scale, hand carved and silver painted Ashanti tribal stool. Likely painted silver in the 1920s to compliment metallic trend of the Art Dec...

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...

This stool by the Luba people of Zaire is indicative of their classic style. A single tree trunk was carved into a column, then further taken in until the robust figure of a woman ap...