Sinmi Stool

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A Sinmi Stool designed by Norman Teague with leather craftsperson Yohance Lacour. The stool seat is primarily constructed from laminated bent birch plywood and the legs are a matte, ebony finished, Baltic birch. The seat is an inverted U-shape, creating a seat form similar to a saddle. The substrate of the seat is five layers of ebony finished, bent plywood with the interior and exterior surfaces covered in black suede leather and brown and white-and-brown speckled ponyskin. The interior is entirely covered in white-and-brown speckled ponyskin that has been applied in three irregular strips with curvilinear edges. The exterior ponyskin has been applied in three irregular pieces; two small strips at the bottom left and right corners directly opposite from each other, and one large piece that extends from the bottom edge of one side seat to the bottom edge of the other side.

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