Spring semester 2018 at DIS Copenhagen, I’ve been in the furniture design studio with a Danish furniture designer. The first half of the semester we made many design iterations through drawing and modeling in order to decide on our best design. The second half of the semester was just working in the workshop. We were given a 120cm x 120cm board of bamboo plywood and from there prompted to create a piece of flat pack furniture. At the beginning of the semester I was focused on exploiting the 120cm x120cm board to the fullest, minimizing any waste with my design. I came up with a stool design that perfectly packed into itself and wasted no material. Once I started testing the design in the workshop, and fine-tuning the proportions, I found that three stools that three-dimensionally pack into each other was my strongest design. So I created just that: a little stool, a medium sized stool, and a large stool that all flat pack, and when assembled, stack into each other. They can be used as side tables, or together as a kind of shelving unit, or simply as a stool for extra seating in a space. I created the stools by cutting the legs and tops out of the bamboo plywood, carefully crafting each set of legs so they would be exactly the same. I then made dovetail joints for the legs to slide into the stool tops. The stools are quick to assemble and take apart, plus structurally stable due to their design. Creating furniture in Copenhagen has been an amazing experience for me — I’ve been in the land of fine furniture design and have been learning about Hans J. Wegner, Finn Juhl, Kaare Klint and many other Danish designers in my Danish design and New Nordic design classes. Having the opportunity to create my own piece of furniture has therefore been even more exciting and rewarding.