Flump Stools

The stools are called Flump after their friendly, relaxed posture: a ‘Flump’ is both a combination of sitting and falling and a British marshmallow candy. The original clay maquette emerged out of a squashed cylinder, creating the signature kink and seat tilt which in return creates a ledge for your feet and a gentle, jovial attitude. Walking around each stool offers different views of Flump’s multifaceted character, from leaning, squatting, chubby to cheeky.

An exercise in pushing the bounds of materiality and sustainability, each stool is 3D printed by an automotive robot using a single filament of molten recycled resin that starts at the base and finishes in the center of the handle. The design of the stool is optimized to utilize post-consumer material in the best way possible and embrace the odd ‘of-shade pastel’ colors. In the future, the design of the squashed cylinder will be carried through a family of products. Future play within materials will include hollow sand-casting aluminum, hand applied plaster and CNC machining from a block of cork.

Heirloom is a studio of celebrated designers united by a belief that the key to developing transformative medical, consumer, and digital products is ingenious design driven by experience, empathy, and joy. The name Heirloom is an embodiment of this mission: that every new product should be created with ‘heirloom-quality’, delivering engaging, inspiring design of uncommon, enduring quality.
First founded in 2022 by Jack Godfrey Wood, Harc Lee, Tate Sager, and Andy Furner, the boutique consultancy brings together a team of multidisciplinary designers and former leadership of some of the world’s most notable studios including Pentagram, fuseproject, Toogood, Marc Newson, and Fantasy.