This lightweight stool and circular table are hand crafted by Japanese designer Akiko Kuwahata, who is known for creating high-quality utilitarian objects in wood. For her STiTCH collection, the Denmark-based designer used steam to bend four-millimeter-thick maple veneer and then stitched it together with heavy, blue-wax string. Photo 1 of 15 in Into the Woods at Maison & Objet 2012 by Ali Morris

Into the Woods at Maison & Objet 2012

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This lightweight stool and circular table are hand crafted by Japanese designer Akiko Kuwahata, who is known for creating high-quality utilitarian objects in wood. For her STiTCH collection, the Denmark-based designer used steam to bend four-millimeter-thick maple veneer and then stitched it together with heavy, blue-wax string.