EuroDesignExhibition: Monique Engelund

„When I got the brief for the exhibition and read "How do you sit in your country?", "Make a stool that tells a story about your country", my initial reaction was "Oh no, now I've got to go do something wooden with all the joints and such like" and I thought "No! I don't want to that!" So I'm presenting a chair inspired by Danish society and how we all need one another to make everything work. But its also inspired by the furniture of the Tuileries Garden in Paris and how they have this freedom to experience the public space in another way. In Denmark we just have benches in public spaces, and not chairs - possibly because they think people might steal them.  But maybe its a good idea to leave the responsibility of what we have together to society. And so my stool is inspired by our society and how we can use furniture to communicate, to socialise. But I deliberately tried to stay away from the classics and wanted to show that Denmark can mean something different....”