The Vietnamese red plastic stool

If you have eaten on a Vietnamese pavement, you have almost certainly sat on a red plastic stool. Low to the ground, moulded in one piece, light enough to carry in one hand and strong enough for years of outdoor use.

These stools line street kitchens, phở carts, neighbourhood cafés and family courtyards. They stack when the rain comes and scatter again when the evening rush starts. The silhouette is simple enough to recognise from a distance.

As design, the Vietnamese café stool is almost anti-precious: mass-produced, practical, and tied to how people actually gather. That is why it keeps appearing in photographs of everyday Vietnam — not as decoration, but as furniture that works.

The Red Plastic Stool in our collection follows that familiar form. It is sold out at the moment; use the notify form on the object page if you want to know when the stool is back in stock.