Stools and benches are versatile and bring flexibility into the home: as a seat at the coat rack, as a storage surface for clothes or as a side table next to the bed to put down reading material. As additional seating at the dining table when more guests than expected come to visit or as a substitute for a ladder, provided the stool is particularly stable. Whether wood or fabric, leather or metal, simple or elaborately woven - the design of the stool is as diverse as its possible uses.