English Apple Wine Box Stool, Orchard Series

Price: £395

Dimensions: Height 54 cm, Length 54 cm, Depth 33 cm (21.3 in x 21.3 in x 13.0 in)

A gloriously useful English apple wine-box stool, made from an original Château Troplong Mondot wooden wine case and transformed into a wonderfully eccentric piece of furniture. The hand-painted apple design brings a proper orchard burst of colour to the original timber, while the smart upholstered top makes it rather comfortable too.

Troplong Mondot is a distinguished Saint-Émilion estate, with its wines still sold in original wooden cases, so the branded timber gives this piece a lovely traceable story before it even becomes a stool. It is part furniture, part artwork and part very good excuse to keep a bottle of something decent nearby.[mannfinewine +1]

Perfect at a kitchen table, beside a dressing table or wherever an extra seat is required. Equally happy as a footstool, a perch for putting on shoes, or a small colourful moment in an otherwise sensible room.