Like no other category of furniture, seating (chairs and stools), offers a challenge and opportunity for the creation of functional art. The building of seating can be intimidating to the woodworker but the reward is an object that can have a profound visual and functional impact. Shown here are four styles that have proven worthy. They are all the result of an obsession with comfort and the study of the ergonomics of sitting.

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of great Truth is also true. ~Neils Bohr