Please have a seat. Or make one. Our urban spaces could definitely benefit from more public seating and relaxation. How luxurious it will seem when we are able to rest our feet where we please once in a while.

Let us know the location of other stumps in need of improvement. Or for the handy and brave, a chain saw can do the job with two careful cuts. Ask your local tool rental shop for safety tips. Let us make the comfy city ours. --love, Jane Tsong & Robert Powers, 2003

"In a city where most walls are too high, low, narrow or studded to accommodate a human backside, and where sitting on the sidewalk is a ticketable offence, their gift of physical comfort turns them into quietly radical objects."-- Owen Driggs, 2010




Alma Primitiva/Naive Soul: Collaboration with Miguel Holek, Colonia Federal, Tijuana, 2010.

Swivel stool on Coronado Street, 2003-2006.

Baba and Antonio Villaraigosa have something in common, 2003-2006. Log donated by the Huntington Botanical Gardens.

Swivel stool on Coronado Street, 2003-2006.

The Coronado Street swivel stool

Armchair on York Boulevard created in collaboration with Shannon Hoff, 2005-.

York Boulevard, near the 110, 2003-.

Jay Lizo and Robert Powers model on the very first Comfy City chairs in Eagle Rock, 2003-2004.