Industrial Designer Sebastian Bergne Upgrades the Studio Applebox - Core77

"As a staple of photography studios and production sets, appleboxes are a supremely useful piece of kit. Typically made of ½" plywood, they serve as both stools and stepstools. They're durable, long-lived and easy to make. Here's one I inherited from an NYC studio on the left—you can see the years of use on it--and a newer one that I made out of plywood scraps. (If you have a pair, you can use them as sawhorses or trestles. They come in handy in a workshop.)"