Hasta La Ideas

Taking advantage of his adopted country’s national obsession, French-born London-based designer Pierre Ospina has produced the cunning “Cricket Stool” from repurposed cricket bats; some of which stained, all of which given a colorful textile grip.

From the amount of people chilling out in the “Rest Area for the Brits” we can conclude that the stools are somewhat-functioning despite being little wider than a two-by-four. The stools are stackable to a certain degree as well and, apparently, the attached legs don’t hinder the swing of the bat too much (as Gabriel Klasmer kindly demonstrates on Pierre’s blog), so you can always burst into a spontaneous game whenever you might feel the need. You’d have to be British to understand.

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