Home Design Letsroll: Japanese Garden Stool

Never underestimate the versatility of the humble stool. Especially not when so many people are trying to carve out space for a home office in cramped apartments. Nomadic stools move effortlessly from room to room and can be placed around a desk to create Melbourne-based designer Ash Allen recently won the sustainable and waste-wise design award at Fringe Furniture (part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival) for his Sticks and Stones outdoor stool. Allen was inspired by two elements of a Japanese rock garden Also offered is a pair of Japanese inspired garden stools, perfect as side cigarette tables for your Zen spa with multiple divans. Croft Antiques in Southampton has imported several chic African pieces—for instance, an Ashanti stool I’d ride alongside Planted in the middle of Capcom's eclectic Tokyo Game Show booth, the demo of Omkamiden had attendees playing the DS sequel to Okami in the middle of a traditional Japanese garden while seated on stools which looked like cut lumber. Groups of gamers were At the edge of this playground in an abandoned garden, Chen has struck gold — green She flours the marble counter and kneads the flour and water dough. Stella, perched on a stool, helps her buwa (grandma in Chongming). Chen pinches off a plump Here, then, is the Garden Lawn Mower (EY2272 the Tsubomi gives you a chance to take a tentative step in that direction. You may wonder why stools keep keep coming up in this column. Even though this basic mode of seating doesn’t leave much room .

I use a wrought-iron chair with the seat removed to corral and support my lilies, but a tall metal bar stool without to my garden. What is the secret? -- T.S., Redmond M.B.: Timing is everything when it comes to moving the Japanese anemone. "The suspended wall was custom designed to glide seamlessly along its 12-metre-long track," says Kember, who took inspiration from historic tracery found in Shanghai's Yu Garden to create The white leather LEM stools cost HK$5,300 each at Desideri Sitting on a plastic stool at a roadside table in Bangkok squid with galangal and lime leaves gathered from the garden; and larb, a salad of chopped meat, herbs and roasted rice. Saiphin showed us how to pick morsels of food from serving platters Williams, now 38, installed a new security system and sports facilities including running machines and basketball nets, all of which remain in the property — as do the fishing tackle, stools and golf course and a Japanese garden. .