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Daniel Berset
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The most recognized work by Berset is the Broken Chair Sculpture (La Chaise Cassée), installed outside the Palais des Nations in Geneva in 1997. Commissioned by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), the monument depicts an oversized wooden chair intentionally rendered with a fractured left leg.
While publicly acknowledged as a symbol advocating for the Ottawa Treaty (the Landmine Ban Treaty), Berset claimed the specific geometry of the break—a complex fracture modeled after the root system of a mature Scots Pine und…