There have been many influential pieces of design from the last 100 years that have come from a utilitarian place.‎ The BassamFellows Cluster Stool is such a piece and was developed to meet a design brief for a large hospitality group, but ended up securing a place in their collection. The Cluster is a simple, easy to move object for sitting on, and it stacks neatly away without the need to be hidden.‎ A group of Clusters looks “on purpose,” and pleasing to the eye.‎ It belongs to a canon of utilitarian, Modernist stools, and looks like the kind of ultra-functional object you may find in a Japanese onsen – a design that may have existed unchanged for centuries.‎ It is stark, but the dip in the seat and the rounded taper of its four legs feels elegant and delicate.‎