This stool was designed by Dutch architect and monk Dom Hans van der Laan. He was one of the leading figures of the Bossche school, an architectural movement based on numerical relationships. Designing pieces on request and in very small series, this stool was commissioned for a private residence in the Netherlands in 1971 as a part of a complete interior redevelopment by the architects of the Bossche Louis de Kok and Fons Vermeulen. It is a rare piece destined for domestic use rather than ecclesiastic.