One Curve Stool is a minimal stool created by Belgium-based designers Studio Narra for Objects With Narratives. It begins with a line—that most elementary of design gestures. In an era when computational power allows designers to generate virtually any form imaginable, Studio Narra has chosen to return to this fundamental building block, transforming it into something at once primal and revolutionary. Their stool emerges not from the complexity of algorithmic design, but from the simplicity of a single ergonomic curve.

“We inspired ourselves by looking at one of the fundamentals of sketching where almost any creative idea starts,” explains Studio Narra. “Something so simple yet so strong, the curve.” This philosophical approach reveals a studio grappling with one of contemporary design’s central tensions: in a world of unlimited formal possibilities, how does one create work with genuine meaning?

The answer lies in their process. By physicializing an ergonomic curve and intersecting three abstracted planes along its trajectory, Studio Narra transforms a two-dimensional line into a spatial entity of remarkable presence. The result is a stool that seems to defy categorization—neither purely functional object nor abstract sculpture, but rather an exploration of the liminal space between utility and contemplation.

Materials here are not merely structural necessities but active participants in the conceptual framework. The 3mm tempered steel plates—remarkably thin for such a structural application—create sharp, defined edges that frame what the designers call “the ever-changing soft materiality of light.” This interplay between solid and void, between the tangible steel and the intangible light it captures, creates a constantly shifting experience as one moves around the piece.