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StumpChair

Making eyesores into Windsors*. Shel Silverstein understood the importance of stumps as seats and expressed this sentiment in his book "The Giving Tree".

StumpChair aims to encourage passers by to slow down and rest as the 'boy' does in Silverstein's story.

*Windsor is a type of traditional wooden chair. [email protected]

06/01/2019

StumpChair featured in a show running currently at the Center For Art in Wood at Philadelphia. The Center for Art in Wood

Exhibition Highlight: “StumpChair” is a video memo of Coby Unger’s StumpChair action, an ongoing guerrilla project that repurposes abandoned furniture to create public seating from tree stumps. The project, which has taken place in a number of East Coast cities (including Philadelphia), is a form of community engagement and a stunt aimed at raising awareness of the importance of trees in urban and rural areas. Filmed in snapshots, the video is the result of a collaboration between longtime friends. It uses the moving image to convey the impetus behind the StumpChair actions, building in the viewer a sense of empathy for trees – a treasured source of material for Unger, a woodworker and furniture maker – and a sense of urgency for the stewardship and conservation of this critical natural resource.

Coby Unger’s video is on view with the video work of nine other makers in our current exhibition "Moving Image Matters: Documenting and Preforming Craft in Video," now through July 20. This image, courtesy of the artist, is of Unger’s "Stump Chairs" piece, commissioned by Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse in Philadelphia, PA.

12/05/2018

Check it out! StumpChair is in a book about making things. Just in time for the holidays. Available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and more.

https://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Hands-Guide-Things-Every/dp/1631869345/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1544026640&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=asa+christiana&dpPl=1&dpID=510VjPyeRCL&ref=plSrch

02/06/2018

Found by a friend in Bogota Colombia!

01/27/2018

Dear Providence,
Thank you for keeping the dream alive.

11/14/2017

StumpChair is back in Providence. A pair of fresh chairs for the Rockefeller Library at Brown University.

11/06/2017

Two new chairs for Beacon Street

10/23/2017

Cedar street is under construction. I hope the workers enjoy theses back to back StumpChairs on their lunch breaks.

09/13/2017

Two fresh chairs for Massachusetts Ave and one for Museum Street.

08/14/2017

Years ago this inverse StumpChair was built. I had assumed it was picked up by the garbage collector, but it turns out I was wrong. The current owner of this piece is offering it up for adoption. Who wants it? (I am willing to fix the cracked seat for you on Wednesday night if you can pick it up) The chair is currently residing on the east side of Providence.