Where's my chair?

Another piece of work by Max Lamb, the Pewter Stool is a great example of Lamb's hands-on approach towards design. Lamb used traditional sand casting methods to cast the pewter in the shape of the stool on a beach in Cornwall where he used to play as a child.


Lamb first melted several pewter ingots on a portable gas stove. After etching the design into the damp sand and then using a pole to to make a hole for the legs, he poured the molten pewter into the mould.


After leaving the pewter to cool and harden, the stool is excavated and cleaned off in the sea. Apart from sourcing the pewter before hand and bringing it to the beach, Lamb has successfully created a stool using the advantages of the conditions at the beach. He has not gone to the workshop after and refined the piece, instead left its aesthetic rough and something that look like it has been formed at the beach.