Fox & Mouse

The fox and the mouse is a piece of furniture inspired by a few parts of Aesop’s fables.

The first being “The lion, The fox, and The Mouse”. Where a sleeping lion is roused by a tiny mouse who runs across its mane. He searches frantically o find it but is laughed at by a fox for being afraid of something so small.

The second being just “The Lion and The Mouse”. The story starts the same but the lion finds the mouse and is about to kill him. The mouse begs for his life in exchange he promises to help the lion in the future. The lion laughed at the idea of a mouse helping him… but let the mouse go. Surely enough, a few days later the lion found himself trapped in a snare and upon hearing the lion’s roar the little mouse came to save him.

I wondered what an encounter between the Fox and the Mouse of these fables might be like. Maybe like the crab - the fox would just ‘gobble up’ the mouse. In that case- if the fox were trapped, would the mouse help?

This piece of furniture acts as either a stool or an end able. The way we interact with the furniture changes its narrative. As a table, the mouse is scavenging and the fox is hunting. But as a stool, perhaps the fox is trapped and the mouse is trying to help.

Functionally it works best as an end table and the fox can be placed independently of the table (or stool) itself. The surface treatment honors the materials its made from without attempting to hide it.

This piece was more conceptual, however, if I were to make it for commercial use it would benefit from either epoxy coating or creating molds to cast the fox and mouse in resin.