Akaei Stool | White Ash Wood & Powder Coated Metal | Backless

The stool that gets out of its own way.

There is a particular kind of freedom in a backless stool — the ease of movement, the openness of form, the sense that the piece trusts the person sitting on it to find their own comfort without being told how. The Akaei Stool was designed for that freedom. In white ash wood and powder coated metal, it carries the same honest material language that runs through the entire Akaei family — the natural grain and warmth of white ash against the clean precision of powder coated metal — in a form that is as undemanding as it is considered. A stool that belongs at the kitchen counter, the home bar, the island, the workspace, and every informal corner of the Indian home that needs a seat without ceremony.

White ash brings the brightness and warmth of honest timber to a form that is deliberately simple — letting the material do what it does best without the distraction of a backrest or upholstery. Powder coated metal holds the frame with the quiet structural confidence of a piece built for the long haul. A backless stool that is light enough to move, considered enough to stay, and honest enough to belong anywhere it finds itself. Designed in India, for the home that values the quiet confidence of a piece that knows exactly what it needs to be — and is entirely that.