The Broken Chair is a monumental wooden sculpture made by the Swiss artist Daniel Berseth and the carpenter Louis Geneva. The sculpture is 12 feet high. It was needed 5.5 tons of wood for its manufacturing. The point is that the product is a chair with a broken, half-repulsed leg, which rises in the middle of Nations Square, in Geneva.

The sculpture was created as a protest against the use of antipersonnel mines, due to which countless of people lose their limbs. And acts as a reminder for the politicians engaged in a visit to Geneva. The Broken Chair was created according to Paul Vermilion project, director and co-founder of "Handicap International", a non-governmental organization providing aid to refugees.

The sculpture was installed by the “Handicap International” at the main entrance to the Palais des Nations, in August 1997. Originally it was planned that the "Chair" will stand for three months, that is, before the signing of the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel mines and cluster bombs in December that year. It became an effective instrument of international law after the treaty had been signed by 40 countries.

The "Chair" gained unexpectedly strong public support, so it remained standing in the square beyond. In 2004, Daniel Berseth gave the rights on "Broken Chair" to “Handicap International". You should visit this monument. You’ll see an amazing huge chair that you haven’t seen before. You’ll commemorate those who died because of the anti-personnel mines and you’ll feel like you’ve done a very important and good thing. It will be a great life experience. Don’t hesitate and go to see it.