Danish-born Tage Frid influenced generations of craftsmen though his woodworking courses and his three-volume Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking, which has been in continuous publication since 1979. The three-legged stool was one of Frid's most successful designs and one he used as an example in the volume dedicated to furniture making. While sitting on a fence at a horse show, Frid was inspired to explore the minimal amount of structure needed to support a grown human. The result was a stool with a seat sixteen inches wide and six inches deep. It was made in three heights; this one is the tallest. A fastidious craftsman, Frid employed a range of construction techniques to create the stool: the back and seat are sawn and shaped; the back is dovetailed to the seat; the legs and stretchers are shaved; and the legs are attached to the seat using through-tenons.