Georgian Footstool

Walnut, Silk and horse hair upholstery
18” x 16” x 22”

Based on small Georgian footstools common in 17th–18th century British and early American interiors, this piece follows traditional proportions, construction, and upholstery methods. Built entirely by hand, it is upholstered in silk and horsehair and finished with iron nails in keeping with period practice. Each leg draws from a different historical vocabulary: a trifid foot with an integrated shell carving, a ball-and-claw foot with carved acanthus, a slipper foot, and a pad foot. From a distance the stool reads as conventional, but up close it becomes a collage of period forms, combining four of the most common feet of the era into a single object. The result highlights a long furniture-making tradition in which animal forms are abstracted into domestic objects, folding wild, bodily references into a restrained interior language.

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