The London Design Festival commissions designers & architects to produce site-specific installations. For Finsbury Avenue Square, by Liverpool Street Station, we designed a playground of 26 coloured chairs.
We wanted to design an installation with which the public could interact, exploring unconventional relationships between the human body & the material environment.
Our talking furniture was an exercise in making the alphabet concrete. First we designed a typeface: each letter was made from two folding lines. We turned the typeface into three-dimensional drawings, based on human measurements. We then worked with a production company, drawing on their knowledge of metal folding & welding.