At last the funny little tractor-seated plastic and chrome stool arrived from Amazon.com. I have to ask you, is this cute or not?
It’s purple!
My latest scheme is to get out of the desk chair, which I believe aids and abets some extraordinarily self-destructive habits (not the least of which is spending too damn many hours in front of the computer). I’ve been perching on one of those little wooden stools you can get in waypoints like Walmart and Target, whose legs my son cut down to make it the right height. This has helped some with the back pain, by making it very difficult to slouch and pretty easy to sit up straight.
However, the wooden stool, with its flat, excessively firm disk-shaped seat, is a little hard on the rear end. The proposed solution to that was one of those padded rolling stools of the sort dentists and manicure technicians use. Amazon has those, too…but if you look up “stools” on that hegemonic site, up comes this little guy.
Several retailers are peddling these at Amazon, at a wide variety of prices. I found one for $35, so figured…hey! if it doesn’t work out, nothing much will be lost. The same manufacturer makes one with a minimalist back, too.
It’s very cheaply made, but it has a kind of Ikea appeal. I figure if this plan doesn’t work and I can’t get comfortable on the thing, I’ll have to buy one of those ugly ergonomic chairs in the Herman Miller vein. One way or another, this contraption isn’t likely to last long, and so I’ll need to replace it with something.
If this idea it does work and I end up liking it and not having my back hurt, then for the same amount one would pay for some designer’s hideous dystopic nightmare, I can get a beautiful hand-crafted Thos. Moser stool, one that decidedly will not fall apart during my lifetime. Or my son’s. Or my grandchildren’s.
Thos. Moser will make these things at any height that will seat you comfortably at your desk.
They have no casters, unfortunately. Or maybe fortunately, for their looks. It is good, in an office (home or otherwise), to be able to roll around. However, for Thos. Moser, I could learn to live a casterless life.
I love Thomas Moser. They make library furniture, but the only library I’ve ever seen furnished in T M was a law school library. That figures, right?
Yup.
There’s another guy who handmakes expensive furniture; I saw his stuff at a library in Mesa, Arizona. And I’ve seen church furnishings that appeared to be in the Thomas Moser mode — in Paradise Valley, one of our enclaves for the very wealthy.