Devon Upholstered Taupe Footstool

The Devon — a compact round drum footstool upholstered in a hand-drawn organic print of taupe stone-shapes on creamy oatmeal linen — built around a confident graphic pattern that turns a small piece of seating into a piece of design.

The Devon brings something most footstools quietly avoid — a confident graphic print as the entire design statement. The fabric is a hand-drawn pattern of interconnected curved stone-like shapes in soft warm taupe on a creamy oatmeal linen ground, the lines drawn loose and irregular the way a contemporary surface designer would draw them. The print has the gestural, slightly imperfect quality of cloth designed by a textile studio — Pierre Frey, Studio Ashby, the Belgian-modern world of pattern that makes everything it touches look considered.

What sets it apart

The detail that makes it different

The drum form is matched by a quietly clever base detail — a recessed plinth set just inside the diameter of the upholstered cylinder, creating a fine shadow gap at the floor that makes the footstool appear to float a few millimetres above the surface. Without this recess the Devon would read as a solid block; with it, the cylinder has lift and the silhouette has proportion. Sized at 40cm wide and 44cm tall, it is properly compact — pulled up to a sofa as an extra seat for a guest, used as a footrest beside an armchair, set down as a small surface with a tray for drinks, or pushed against the wall in a hallway as a place to sit and pull on shoes.