Sophie Dries

Totem 1

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Her work moves fluidly between architecture, ceramics and furniture, merging artisanal techniques — hand-gouged porcelain, mixed materials, sculptural woodworking — with a contemporary architect’s eye for volume and light. Every piece she designs carries the same instinct: to treat an object as a small building, considered from every angle.

Totem 1 opens the sculptural trio that Sophie Dries designed specifically for the first Parisian flagship store of shoemaker Michel Vivien, a commission that let the architect-turned-designer explore furniture as pure, rounded form. Carved from solid oak and finished here in a warm gold hue, it can serve equally as a stool or a side table, shifting function without ever losing its totemic silhouette.

Because each piece is entirely handmade, the shape and shade of every Totem stool vary slightly from the next, a subtle irregularity that Dries treats as a feature rather than a flaw. Grouped together or placed alone, the three Totem pieces read as a family of solid oak forms, each one a small monument to the material’s natural grain and warmth.

This creation is crafted from solid wood, a natural material that naturally expands, contracts and cracks with temperature and humidity changes. Variations in grain, colour, and texture are inherent and natural. These natural changes are a sign of authenticity, and part of what makes each piece unique.
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Round stool in solid wood pictured here in solid oak, colour Gold oak
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Each piece is unique due to its handmade nature, shapes and shades vary slightly

Ø 40 x H 45 cm / Ø 15.7″ x H 17.7″
Handmade in France
Production lead time: 6 weeks
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