403 Room 19
Chair, Red and Blue
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Narrator
So this is actually a chair.Voice
Wow!Narrator
A bit hard to sit on, perhaps?Voice
Looks very hard!!Narrator
But even so, it’s a chair!You can use it to sit on, perhaps you might even be able to sleep!
Voice
Zzzzzzzzzzzz(Snoring sounds)
Narrator
You could be gaming, eating, reading… these are all things we do while sitting on chairs.But is counting something we can do with this chair?
For example, can you count how many edges are painted yellow?
Voice
(counts quietly from 1…)How many pieces it’s made from?
How many colours have been used?
(The voice continues to count quietly)
Narrator
Many people who bought this chair wanted it because they thought it was nice to look at!Others both looked at it and sat in it, but I'm pretty sure that a lot of people liked to count it.
Every day when they walked past their chair, they might have thought:
20 yellow edges!
Voice
Yes!Narrator
15 black pieces!Voice
Yes!Narrator
One that's red!
And one that's blue!Voice
Red and blue!Narrator
That's what the chair is called.Both
Red and blue!