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The company designed, built and made up-to-date architecture and furniture, often using plywood. Stools, such as this, were sold by Isokon from 1933. The extraordinarily lightweight (1.1 kg) and surprisingly strong stools were manufactured by the Estonian company Luterma from the early 1930s and were imported by their British distributor Venesta.\r\n\r\nAnother object in the collection (V&amp;A museum W.7-2017) made after the design of this stool presents a slight variation made by the same firm no later than 1933. It is also a rare example of a modernist object that has been personalised by the addition of distinctly un-modernist decoration. ","physicalDescription":"Stool, base unit is comprised of three pieces of mouled 3-ply birch plywood and eight iron foot plates. 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