Cameron Van Dyke is a designer and sculptor based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a city whose roots in the furniture industry go all the way back to the Stickleys. Van Dyke takes a radical approach to the whole idea of seating, particularly seating in public places. Whatever material he uses—carbon fiber, steel, leather, wood, fiberglass, concrete—his monolithic benches and stools are emphatically sculptural. They have great presence, projecting from the ground as though an abstract continuation of it, and presenting places to park yourself as though you too are part of the landscape. His Bulls Horn Stool, made of leather whipstitched together with hemp twine, speaks of the shape of saddles and raises the question of whether to call it furniture or sculpture. The best answer is both. The stool’s exposed stitching makes no secret of how it is put together. The mysteriously seamless carbon fiber form of Van Dyke’s more recent Stealth stool, wryly named for the expensively undetectable bomber made of the same material, takes the opposite tack.

— From Glenn Gordon's essay, Sculpture Designed to be Used.