Huyen Trang Nguyen is an interiors and furniture designer based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Trang graduated from the University of Architecture HCM city in 2019. She won the first prize of the Hoa Mai competition in 2018, co-organized by AHEC, and was also one of the winners of the Creative ASEAN Furniture Design contest 2018. Trang has always been fascinated by Vietnamese traditional-inspired furniture and that’s the reason for bringing her to the aspiration of renewing traditional values.

The inspiration behind Nguyen’s stools came from the roof tiles of traditional Vietnamese temples, which overlap, hiding the connecting screws beneath them. In the same way, when the stools are stacked, the pins and joints disappear from view. Looking at the stool from the side it’s also possible to see the silhouette of a traditional Vietnamese dress.