Rough #1 Folding Stool, Steel and Leather, Danish Modernist, Late 20th Century

Description

A folding stool in brushed steel and near-black leather, Danish, second half of the 20th century. The piece sits within the Danish modernist campaign-stool tradition: a regional reworking of the X-frame folding-stool typology in industrial materials, descended through the work of Kaare Klint and Mogens Koch and most prominently realised in Poul Kjærholm’s PK91 of 1961 for E. Kold Christensen. The Rough #1 is a parallel design within this idiom, neither attributed to nor produced by Kjærholm.

The cross-braced brushed-steel frame supports a folding sling seat in black leather, the leather under tension serving as the seating surface. The model is recorded in Scandinavian auction archives – most notably at Bukowskis, Stockholm – as the Rough #1 stool attributed to Michael Christensen. The piece carries no manufacturer mark or designer signature, and is offered without formal attribution.

Dimensions: H 34.5 (seat height, extended) × L 60 × W 40 cm.
Materials: Brushed steel, black leather (near-leather composite).
Condition: Good – light patina to the brushed-steel frame consistent with age; sling seat supple and intact; surface creases on the leather.