1" Storybook Chair: A Quiet Moment in Miniature

In this 3-hour workshop, participants create a one-inch scale storybook chair vignette inspired by a favorite tale. Beginning with a pre-made miniature chair, students learn 1:12 finishing techniques, including layered paint, controlled distressing, and subtle aging. They construct a small handmade book, focusing on proportion, scale illusion, and surface detail.

The scene is set on a textured grassy base, with methods for building realistic terrain using simple techniques. Added elements—such as botanical growth, clay mushrooms, ivy, and optional soft furnishings—create a quiet narrative moment.

While guided, each piece is individual. Participants may interpret their story freely and include small personal items. By the end, each leaves with a completed, display-ready miniature emphasizing storytelling through finish, composition, and restraint.

each student kit includes: small chair wood base, book making material for one small book, extra books, leaves, turf, dust terrain, butterflys.

All Materials Included

Admission $40. Limit 12 students

In collaboration with Creative Bond @ St. Lydia's.

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Host or Publisher Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition