Frenesí Stool by Transatlàntic for Akaba
Designed 1984
No longer in production
Transatlàntic was a Spanish design group, founded by graphic artist Lluís Morillas, and industrial designers Ramon Benedito and Josep Puig. The Frenesí stool was designed as part of their 1984 Mobles Sensual (“Sensual Furniture”) collection, which aimed to create furniture with eroticized silhouettes, seen in this stool’s phallic diagonal support bar, rubber tip, and leather seat evocative of intimate clothing. It was in production through Akaba SA from 1986 until 1988. The Frenesí stools were used in several episodes of The Next Generation, in Engineering, and Voyager, in Sickbay and the Astrometrics Lab.
Special thanks to Jörg Hillebrand for the TNG screencaps, and for noting that the Frenesí Stool seems to have replaced the Rocchetto Stool’s place in Engineering, which was used in earlier seasons of TNG.
Used in:
The Next Generation
Voyager
