Award of Merit:

Naomi Milgrom Foundation and BoardGrove Architects for MPavilion 2020 Stool Dolly

The Stool Dolly is a highly responsive, functional, cost-effective reaction to a time and place.

Responding to the necessity of 'physical distancing' in this time of Covid-19, Stool Dolly considers how individuals can informally create separation through spatial means. Reminiscent of paper dolls — where folded paper is cut into a simple human form, before becoming a train of people connected by their stretched-out arms — each plywood Stool Dolly chair can be positioned in two states: at 'arm's length' (1.5m), or interlocked. A playful, time-specific piece of furniture.

Category: Use

Designers: Holly Board, Peter Grove