On May 6th the inaugural, and quite possibly concluding, EuroDesignExhibition opens in Düsseldorf. Under the title ““Sit down please” 40 Stools from 40 Countries” an array of young international designers have been challenged with describing their country in a stool.
Ahead of the opening we spoke to Denmark’s representative Monique Engelund about her entry:
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….
Those curious to see what Monique has designed can view “Sit down please” 40 Stools from 40 Countries at Teilmöbliert, Lorettostrasse 9, 40219 Düsseldorf from May 6th – 20th.
More information and a complete list of competitors can be found at:
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