Dutch Design Week 2014: The most recognisable paintings from the art collection of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum are printed onto the seats of these plywood stools by Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek. More about Piet Hein Eek prints Rijksmuseum artworks onto flatpack stools
London Design Festival 2014: New York-based Amma Studio has created a range of coffee tables and stools made by moulding cement with a range of unexpected materials. More about Amma Studio's stools and tables combine cement with BB pellets and coffee grounds
London Design Festival 2014: design website Standseven has launched its first limited-edition product this week with a stool shaped like the number seven by London architect David Adjaye (+ interview). More about David Adjaye creates Stool 7 for new online design platform Standseven
London Design Festival 2014: Norwegian studio Anderssen & Voll has created a bar stool for Italian brand Magis that reinterprets a design that appeared in sci-fi films and TV shows. More about Anderssen & Voll reinterprets Magis' gas-lift bar stool
Maison&Objet 2014: Stockholm design agency Afteroom has created a coat hook, lounge chair and bar stool for Danish design brand Menu's Autumn Winter 2014 collection. More about "Bauhaus modernism" inspires Afteroom's furniture and home accessories for Menu
New Zealand industrial designer Holly Bradshaw-Clegg has designed a stool with an integrated reading light that is activated when pressure is applied to its seat. More about Sitting on Holly Bradshaw-Clegg's Pascal Stool switches on the light above
London Design Festival 2014: London design studio Industrial Facility has created a stool to join its Branca family of wooden furniture for Italian brand Mattiazzi. More about Industrial Facility adds Branca Stool to collection for Mattiazzi
These quilted stools by Swiss designer Véronique Baer squish down when sat on and bounce back up when the sitter stands up (+ movie). More about Bounce stools by Véronique Baer spring back into shape
Milan 2014: Oki Sato of Nendo explains the concept behind the SU stool, which is based on American furniture company Emeco's iconic Navy Chair and features interchangeable seats made from recycled and reclaimed materials (+ movie). More about Emeco's eco-friendly stool by Nendo is "a system rather than a single piece of furniture"
Milan 2014: Philippe Starck has developed a counter stool and bar stool to complement the Broom Chair he designed for American furniture brand Emeco using a material predominantly made from industrial waste. More about Philippe Starck adds stools made from recycled materials to his Broom collection for Emeco
Swedish architect and designer Mia Cullin has produced a range of benches and stools with adjustable seats modelled on traditional wooden peg furniture and piano stools. More about Mia Cullin models wooden benches on piano stools for Orkester collection
Milan 2014: American furniture company Emeco has revealed a collection of stools and tables made from recycled and reclaimed materials in collaboration with Nendo (+ slideshow). More about Nendo reimagines the Navy Chair to create new stool for Emeco
This bar stool designed by Aurélien Barbry allows people of different heights to sit comfortably thanks to footrests positioned at various heights. More about Bar stool by Aurélien Barbry features multiple footrests to fit any user
Edinburgh College of Art student Peter Trimble has built a portable machine for manufacturing furniture from sand, urine and bacteria (+ slideshow). More about Stools made of sand and urine by Peter Trimble
Cologne 2014: Eindhoven designer Tsuyoshi Hayashi has used discarded roof tiles to create curving seats for a series of stools and benches (+ slideshow). More about Furniture made from waste tiles by Tsuyoshi Hayashi
London architect and designer Daniel Widrig has printed a stool from a mixture of sugar, plaster and Japanese rice wine. More about Daniel Widrig uses DIY 3D printing process to produce pixellated stool
Montreal designer Loïc Bard has created a wooden stool to add to his collection of furniture with gaping mouths that store magazines inside the top. More about Wooden stool with a gaping mouth stores a magazine within its seat
London Design Festival 2013: these round stools by Stockholm designer Kyuhyung Cho can be stacked thanks to a ring of holes around the edge of each seat. More about Poke Stool by Kyuhyung Cho for Innermost
These aluminium stools and benches by design graduate Sara Mellone are designed to look like folded pieces of paper. More about The Simple Things by Sara Mellone
Milan 2013: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka presented plastic furniture that resembles cut-crystal glasses for Italian brand Kartell at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last week. More about Sparkle by Tokujin Yoshioka for Kartell