The Internet abounds with not-so-subtle knockoffs of Alvar Aalto's Stool 60 - not to mention various D.I.Y. notions about how to jazz up its charmingly simple design. Decoupage seems to be very popular. But if you step into a Comme des Garçons boutique this summer and see the Finnish classic dressed up in black polka dots, don't accuse Rei Kawakubo of Ikea-hacking a Frosta: this is the real deal. In honor of Stool 60"s upcoming 80th birthday, Artek, its official manufacturer, invited Kawakubo to have her way with it. "We wanted to have special projects with creative people that we really value," says Ville Kokkonen, Artek's design director who worked with Kawakubo on a fragrance in 2008, and a year later on a floral rendition of the same stool. Rei is one of them. You can see the result above: a bit polka dotted, a bit cow spotted - a monochromatic reinterpretation of the wildly colorful circles and splotches seen on the Comme des Garçons runway back in March. The stools will be available, at least initially, in a numbered edition of 200. "With the black circle, it becomes an art object," Kokkonen says. I'm definitely going to have one for myself, and put it somewhere in the room and not use it. Artek and Comme des Garçons stool, $455.