Four 'Tom Vac' chairs, 1997 (design) – Ron Arad

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Ron Arad
Four 'Tom Vac' chairs, 1997 (design)

H. 79.5 x 68.5 x 62 cm.
Arad Ron Associates, London, 1997.
Chrome-plated metal tube, aluminum sheet. Inscription: facsimile signature, numbers 113 - 116/500 (incised).

"When I was designing the original Tom Vac Chairs in aluminium -which is now rare and hard to find- that were made in vacuum formed aluminium. It is seemed amusing to me to associate it with Tom Vack, the photographer who was working on a number of my Italian projects at the time. It entertained me when Tom told me that, after the plastic version was a great success diffused all over the world, in a small bar on the lake of Como he was asked “Were you named after the chair?” "_ Ron Arad

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Estimate: 9,000 € - 10,000 €

176B - Schools of Design
03. December 2024 at 5:00 PM CET

Literature:

Centre Pompidou, Ron Arad, no discipline, Paris 2008, p. 106-107.

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Four 'Tom Vac' chairs, 1997 (design)