Designer Ayush Kasliwal’s Jaipur-based AKFD, a contemporary furniture studio, crafts a minimally designed bar-style stool using mango wood for its seat and aluminium for its slickly crafted legs with slight protrusions for the user to prop their feet. The design of the two identical yet independent wooden planks is perhaps reminiscent of Japanese product designer Sori Yanagi’s Butterfly Stool of 1954, designed at a crucial moment in Japanese history, as Japan was then a fast-emerging industrial country. The legs of the elegant and sparely designed Sundarban Stool are made out of two inverted V-shaped aluminium structures.