Stilts have been used for centuries to protect homes from bad weather. In Vietnam, for example, many people still live in elevated houses similar to those used 4,000 years ago .

A Bird's-Eye History Of Walking On Stilts In 1411, the count of Namur banned the use of stilts in the Belgian city. Over the past 600 years, the elevated footwear has been used for everything from ...

The trend may have been prompted in part by the much-publicized auction sale two years ago of La Maison Tropicale, the prefab on stilts designed in the 1940s by Jean Prouvé for French colonial ...

2 of 6 — An illustration, circa 1800, shows men in Landes, France, walking on stilts to protect their feet from the marshy ground. 3 of 6 — A stilt walker works in the hop fields of ...