The piano stool is one of furniture’s most enduring forms — Victorian parlours needed somewhere to sit at height, and the result was a piece that outlasted the parlour itself. Uniflex took that silhouette and did what the best British modernists of the 1960s did: stripped it back, lengthened the leg, hollowed the apron into a clean concave curve. The form is still legible. The fussiness is gone.
Made by L. Lazarus & Sons under the Uniflex label — the firm that employed Peter Hayward and Günther Hoffstead and helped bring modernist design into the British bedroom after the Festival of Britain. This stool would originally have accompanied a dressing table as part of a bedroom suite; it stands perfectly well alone.
Dark walnut frame with square-section tapered legs. The concave apron is a genuinely shaped piece of timber — not a flat rail — which speaks to the quality tier Uniflex were working at. Original upholstery in a close-weave wool fabric: austere, functional, entirely period-correct. The leather bead where seat meets frame is intact.
Works as intended — dressing table, hallway, bedroom corner — or simply as an object worth having.
Dimensions: W 49cm / D 36cm / H 42cm
Condition: Original fabric, cleaned, with light wear consistent with sixty years of use. Frame solid and stable throughout.
