Sarina designs bark-clad Forestrest seats to reference traditional Mongolian crafts

Mongolian designer Sarina has released a duo of stools clad in the pale bark of birch trees that celebrate the craftsmanship of the Oroqen people of Inner Mongolia.

The Oroqen people are an ethnic group native to the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, who have been using birch tree bark in their handicrafts for thousands of years.

However, rather than the brown inner bark used by Oroqen craftspeople, Sarina decided to employ the birch tree's outer bark...