Five Fabulous: Hardworking Stools

1. Milking Stool, $300 Pops of color and smart, simple design make this clever piece from Brooklyn-based UM Project anything but ordinary. Get it: Voos

2. A_Stool by HALE, $850 Slide this slinky, powder-coated aluminum stool up to your worktable or under the counter. Get it: Supermarket

3. Eames Walnut Stools, $829 We’re dying to see if these versatile pieces will show up on Mad Men in the Time-Life Building, where the fictitious firm Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce just moved. (Ray Eames created them for the building’s lobby.) Get it: Herman Miller

4. The Camping Stool from Normann Copenhagen, $2,600 Let this molded beech wood design by Jesper K. Thomsen serve as extra seating or an easy side table. Get it: Velocity Art and Design

5. Capelli Stool, $529 Carol Catalano designed this graceful stool after being inspired by the shape of her own entwined fingers. Get it: Herman Miller