Pencil of Nature

PN.26.037. Product. Studio project, 2026.

Objects for a Small Flat

Four things for two rooms: a stool, a desk that folds into a wall, a balanced lamp, and a pebble that tells you the weather.

A three-legged ash stool with wedged through-tenons.
Three-Legged Stool, ash
A fold-down oak wall desk with brass stays.
Wall Desk, oak and brass
A disc of opal glass balanced on a steel arm with a brass counterweight.
Disc Lamp
A pebble-shaped ceramic device on a wet windowsill, showing a single curved line.
Weather Stone
Measured front view and plan of the stool.

The brief

Design a furniture piece, an industrial product and a futuristic consumer device.

The idea

In a small flat, every object has to earn its floor space. Each of these does one thing, and folds, balances or sits on a windowsill when it is not doing it. The Weather Stone is the futuristic one, and its whole interface is a single drawn line showing the next six hours.

Decisions

  • Exposed joints: the stool's wedged tenons are its decoration.
  • The desk is shut most of the time, so its closed state has to be beautiful.
  • The lamp balances on a brass counterweight, so moving it is a small pleasure.
  • The Weather Stone has one line and one dial, and no app.

How it came together

  1. Started from the size of a small room.
  2. Wrote each object as one job and one rest state.
  3. Drew the stool with real dimensions and joinery.

How it works

The stool drawing is drawn in code at real dimensions.

Want something like this?

Tell us what you are making. A few lines is enough to start.

Tell us about your project

Hanging nearby

A fanned crate of record sleeves beside a turntable on a mustard ground.DeadwaxA music player where you flip through a crate of sleeves and drag a real tonearm to seek. It plays the studio's own EP.PN.26.020. Interactive prototype, Sleeve artwork.A page of large serif sentences about a monthly budget, with amounts in red.PlainsongA personal finance app with almost no charts. Your money is told in sentences, and any number in red can be dragged to ask what if.PN.26.021. Interactive prototype.A soft peach shape reading Breathe in on a dark phone screen.LungfulA breath training app built around one soft shape and one colour per phase, with a real timer, sound and history.PN.26.022. Interactive prototype.