Ben Durack Design

Introducing Grounded Rituals - a stacking stool set designed for homes that are asked to do more with less.

Inspired by Japanese low-sitting culture and its links to connection, balance, and wellbeing, Grounded Rituals is a set of four low stools that stack into a single sculptural totem. Something worth looking at for the 60%+ of the time it isn’t in use - and something worth gathering around when it is.

As our homes shrink (urban flats are on average 15% smaller than twenty years ago) the objects inside them need to earn their place twice over. Grounded Rituals does this by being honest about what domestic life actually looks like: long stretches of quiet punctuated by moments of gathering. The stool set holds both.

Low seating brings people physically closer. It encourages conversation, warmth, and the kind of unhurried time that a sofa at arm’s length doesn’t quite allow. Grounded Rituals is a design cue for a different rhythm - slower, more intentional, more human.

Developed using for as part of the Vizcom Cork Design Challenge - exploring how adaptive furniture can help urban homes live and gather with more grace.

SlowLiving FlexibleFurniture UrbanLiving LowSeating

Two finishes. One ritual.

Invest in your rituals. Anything to pull you away from the infinite digital noise - if even for a few minutes.

TRACE.

This is Aberdeen. My family’s home.

🌊 This is the beach we escaped to during COVID.

🥞 Our first brunch as new parents with the grandparents.

📐The street I first worked on.

Design your own in under a minute. Quietly celebrate the places that matter to you in your home.

Made in Scotland.