Bronze Patinated Steel & Vegetable Tanned Leather Stool/Ottoman

$4,500

Description: Studio-made sculptural ottoman or stool designed and handcrafted in Los Angeles. This contemporary modernist piece features a brutalist steel frame with a rich bronze patina, composed of rhythmic arches balanced elegantly atop stacked sculptural spheres.

The seat is upholstered in hand saddle-stitched vegetable-tanned leather, designed to develop a unique patina over time—reacting beautifully to sunlight, use, and touch. Custom leather colors also available.
Measurements: 26 x 26 x 20 in
Condition: New
Color: Brown/Black
Seller: Joseph Santiago-Dieppa
I came to sculpture and design through painting, carrying with me a deep sensitivity to gesture, surface, and composition. That painterly sensibility stays close as I work in wood, metal, and other raw materials. Each piece feels like a canvas in space, where movement and material spark a kind of conversation. My practice is restless. I am interested in creating forms in which various identities and extremes coexist: dense and spare, industrial and handmade, rigid and relax, systematic and random. I test how far a line can stretch, how a plane might sag or split, how a form can breathe instead of stand frozen. Each project feels like an improvisation, guided by urgency and curiosity. I’m willing to let things feel unresolved or uneasy, trusting that tension to sharpen the work. It comes from a painter’s memory of color and touch — carried forward into three dimensions, always moving, always searching.