The designer, Shin Azumi, says that he got the idea for the Kai stool by playing with a piece of paper. 'If you fold a piece of paper you get a crisp edge, and if you bend it you get a gentle but tensioned curvature. I tried to fix the beauty of these natural phenomena as a stool.'
Karri Monni was born 1969 in Varkaus , Finland. He graduated from the Lahti Institute of Design, Department of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design in 1998.