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Family workshop · 2024

A Chair for a Teddy Bear

What kind of chair does a favourite teddy bear need?

Role and collaboration
Workshop leader: Friðrik Steinn Friðriksson.
Venue
Museum of Design and Applied Art, Iceland
Date
6 October 2024
A grey teddy bear sits in a small wooden chair on the museum’s colourful worktable.

Children and their families designed and built small chairs for teddy bears. Participants developed their own ideas and assembled their chairs.

From idea to object

Pencil sketches of chairs and a teddy bear on a sheet of paper on the worktable.
Ideas on paper. The drawings show both the chair and the teddy bear it is intended for.

The workshop drew on the work of Enzo Mari and his belief that anyone could build their own chair. The teddy bear gave participants a specific user to design for, inviting them to explore form, scale and use.

A small wooden chair on a workbench beside a glue gun.
From drawing to making: the chair assembled from wooden strips.

The workshop was part of the museum’s family programme.

A wooden chair with armrests and a slatted seat on a green worktable.
Seat, back and armrests made using the same simple material.