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F1 Bodyguard n°3 2007 2C Olympic Bridge, 3B Screw 2006 5a Schizzo 1989 6b Looming Lloyd 1989 7B Spanish Made 1990 8A The Big E 2003 9B New Orleans 1999 11b Little Heavy 1989 12C The Rover Chair 1981 14C Aerial Light 1981 F3 Rolling Volume 1991 Polished and partially colored project, 2007 Aluminum and stainless steel Plywood Lloyd Loom chair, stainless Stainless steel Rotation-molded polyethylene 9c Fiberglass, polyester, Polished stainless steel Tubular steel, leather, and Lacquered steel, cast iron, car Mirror-polished stainless steel superplastic aluminum Selective laser sintering Manufactured by Driade SpA, Italy Manufactured by Vitra GmbH, Germany steel, and patinated steel Edition by One Off/Ron Arad Associates, Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy and gelcoat Edition by One Off/Ron Arad cast-iron Kee Klamp joints aerial, electronic components, Edition by One Off, London Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, in polyamide The Museum of Modern Art, New York. , , Edition by One Off/Ron Arad Associates, London Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy Edition by Ron Arad for The Gallery Associates, London Edition by One Off, London and halogen bulb , , Musée Gift of the manufacturer Germany Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, national d’art moderne/Centre de the London Mourmans, the Netherlands Private collection, London Edition by One Off, London Private collection, London Germany création industrielle Private collection, USA Private collection, USA Private collection Private collection, USA 8B Soft Big Easy 1990 3C PizzaKobra 2007 5b Empty Chair prototype, 1994 7C Well Tempered Chair 2D Box in Four Movements Polyurethane foam, steel, 12D Moreover 2007 6c Sit! prototype, 1990 prototype, 1986 10D D-Sofa prototype, 1994 11c Big Heavy 1989 14D Rocking Chair 1981 F4 Rolling Volume 1989 1994 Steel, aluminum, and light- Lacquered plywood with paint polypropylene, and wool Chromed steel emitting diodes (LEDs) and handwritten instructions Tempered and patinated steel Sprung stainless steel Patinated, painted, oxidized Patinated mild steel Tubular steel and PVC plastic– Patinated mild steel and Stainless steel Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy Edition by Ron Arad Associates, polished stainless steel Manufactured by iGuzzini Prototype by Ron Arad and Driade Prototype by Ron Arad/One Off, London and wing nuts Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy stainless steel and mild steel Edition by One Off, London, and The London covered galvanized springs Gallery Mourmans, the Netherlands Edition by Ron Arad Associates, London illuminazione SpA, Italy SpA, Italy Private collection, Paris Prototype by One Off, London Private collection, London Edition by One Off, London Prototype by Vitra GmbH, Germany Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Edition by One Off, London Collection of Reed and Delphine Krakoff The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Private collection, London Pizzuti Collection Private collection, Germany Collection of Aby J. Rosen Germany M.J.S. Collection, Paris Gift of the manufacturer 8c Big Easy Volume 2 1988 6230 6D Narrow Papardelle 1992 13C Tinker Chair 1988 3D Box in Four Movements 5c Tel Aviv Performing Arts Polished stainless steel H1 Lolita 2004 Woven stainless steel mesh 7D Bad Tempered Chair 2002 10c Little Albert 2002 11D Moreover 2007 Painted and patinated F2 Ballpark prototype, 2001 1994 4b Empty Chair 1994 Center 1988–94 Edition by One Off, London Crystals and light-emitting and steel Carbon, Kevlar, and glass Collection of Michael G. Jesselson, hammered steel Silicone, steel, and rubber Ash plywood and stainless steel Rotation-molded polyethylene Patinated rusted steel diodes (LEDs) Polished and patinated bronze Patinated steel Edition by One Off/Ron Arad Associates, fibers with wing nuts New York Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy Edition by Ron Arad Associates, Edition by One Off, London Prototype by Ron Arad Associates, Edition by Ron Arad Associates, London Manufactured by Driade SpA, Italy London Edition by Swarovski, Austria Private collection, London Manufactured by Vitra GmbH, Germany Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy London Courtesy Jerome L. and Ellen Stern London M.J.S. Collection, Paris Courtesy Driade The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gift Courtesy Swarovski Crystal Palace, Courtesy Vitra Private collection, London Private collection, London of the Sealy Family Trust, by exchange 8d Big Easy Volume 2 1989 London Design Museum Holon, Stainless steel and antirust 13d The Rover Chair 1981 Send a text message to Lolita: 4D Wild Crow 1988 Israel 2004–08 paint Tubular steel, leather, and (917) 774-6264 Stainless and patinated steel 629 Perspex and timber Edition by One Off/Ron Arad Associates, cast-iron Kee Klamp joints Edition by One Off, London London Private collection, London Edition by One Off, London Jean and Annie Galvani, private Private collection, USA collection, France The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Architecture & Design Purchase Fund

Restless Furniture tempered steel can provide. The chairs, including steel provides some bounce to the seat. “Well direction of her family’s furniture business, and seats from a Rover V8 2L car. He bought two in of small rubber balls, each with a slice cut out pressed for a name, Arad thought of another 4D, 6B, 7B Sit!, Bucking Bronco, and Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, tempered” suggests an amiability that contrasts inspired her to produce the upholstered Soft red, dismantled them, then anchored the seats of it that has been replaced with a mirror. Each work in progress, his LED-riddled Lo-Rez-Dolores- were made during a workshop Arad conducted with the chair’s rather threatening appearance. Big Easy. Almost fifteen years later, in 2003, in tubular-steel frames using Kee Klamps, an ball, oriented to catch the light, reflects a single Tabula-Rasa, and from there went to Lolita—the Wild Crow is the first and most distinctive of at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Arad has described the Well Tempered Chair as Moroso put The Big E into production. Made inexpensive scaffolding system invented in the pixel, and together they can spell out words nickname of Vladimir Nabokov’s Dolores Haze Arad’s series that critic Deyan Sudjic has dubbed Germany, in 1990. He had asked to be provided “all skin—no bones, fat, or muscle.” In Bad Tempered from rotation-molded polyethylene, it is suitable 1930s for cow-milking stalls. Arad sold the first or create images. Because there are so many and the subject of the first line of the eponymous Ron Arad stands out among the most influential “restless furniture.” Perched on a heavy and with tempered steel, but it was available only Chair, this skin is not steel but a composite of glass, for both indoor and outdoor use. two Rover Chairs to fashion designer Jean Paul possible angles of reflection and each ball can be novel: “Lolita, light of my life . . .” designers of our time for his daredevil approach unstable base with its beak thrust toward the in strips about twelve inches wide. Arad made carbon, and Kevlar fibers embedded in synthetic Gaultier, who happened to see them in the window independently manipulated, the reflected to form, structure, technology, and materials sky, this surprising and somewhat menacing The New Orleans chairs of 1999 are eighteen Send a text message to Lolita: (917) 774-6264 a virtue out of necessity—creating a new resin, retaining the simple form of the original in of One Off, and they soon became hugely popular. text can be different from—even the opposite in work that spans the disciplines of industrial chaise longue rewards its daring user with a colorful armchairs made in the same shape as typology of chairs. a chair that is incredibly light. Arad stopped producing Rover Chairs once the of—what is shown on the tray. 629 design, sculpture, architecture, and mixed- soothing rocking motion. Another member Big Easy. Arad painted the chairs by applying 624 supply of usable seats was exhausted. Although medium installation. Arad was born in Tel Aviv of the restless family is Looming Lloyd, whose 627 pigmented polyester gelcoat in layers inside the he was aware at the time of the many artistic in 1951, and since 1973 he has been based in weighted clogs can be clamped onto any four- mold before pouring in the polyester, thus making experiments with found objects, his intention, he Lolita London, where he studied at the Architectural legged chair—transforming it into a tilting, Big Easys the decorative element inherent to the chair’s Tempered Chairs construction. He favored bright primary colors insists, was not to participate in this legacy nor H1 Association and in 1981 founded the gallery- tumbling wonder. Spanish Made, so named 8A—D, 9B+C, 10D 7C, 7D to recycle, but simply to make something easy studio One Off. He runs Ron Arad Associates with because it was designed at a workshop in Spain, in abstract drips and bursts, with the occasional When Nadja Swarovski set out to build the Arad’s work with tempered steel, particularly his written message: “Absolutely not for sale,” and, above all, different. The Moreover chairs, longtime business partner Caroline Thorman. is yet another balancing act. It is inscribed Well Tempered Chair, Arad’s first commission new Crystal Palace division of her family’s grasp of the expressive and formal possibilities “No plan just do it,” and “The last one was not so sculptural tributes to The Rover Chair that leave Ron Arad: No Discipline celebrates the designer’s with the Arab proverb, “The dog barks, but the from a major manufacturer, was inspired by company, Swarovski Crystal, she invited Arad of welding, matured in the years following the very brilliant, this one must be!” behind all pretense of functionality, are editioned interdisciplinary and “no-disciplinary” spirit. caravan moves on.” the shape of the archetypal plush club chair—the to reinvent the traditional chandelier with design of Well Tempered Chair. These changes by Vitra in either rusted or chromed steel. Physical concepts are traced through works in epitome of comfort. Made of cold steel, Arad’s 623 modern technology. Made with 2,100 crystals are apparent in the Big Easy chairs, large, hollow different materials and scales, and objects are chair looks forbidding, yet it proves to be quite 622 and 1,050 white LEDs, Lolita is a flat ribbon armchairs with ballooning arms. The first Big Easy, grouped in families based on a shared form, material, Vitra Design comfortable. Its construction—four sheets of wound into a corkscrew shape. The ribbon made in 1988, is rugged, with visible welded Rover and Moreover technique, or structural idea, as outlined in the Museum Workshop steel looped and bolted with wing nuts—exemplifies contains thirty-one processors that enable the seams joining its curved steel parts. Later versions 12C, 11D+12D, 13D Ballpark accompanying texts. The exhibition culminates in 6C the designer’s inclination to play and experiment, display of SMS text messages sent to Lolita’s have highly polished reflective surfaces with F2 Cage sans Frontières, Arad’s large structure pushing a material to its limits. The chair’s The Rover Chair was the first successful design cellphone number; these messages wind down Exhibition map: Surprisingly stable despite their narrow bases, distorting effects, including the design’s most that cradles all the other works. name is a play on its execution: tempering is a for One Off, Arad’s studio, and the launching point Some of Arad’s most remarkable work has the ribbon’s curves, creating the impression these chaises provide a new experience: sitters recent incarnation, the Even the Odd Balls? duo. Created by Aidan O’Connor and Hunter Palmer heat treatment that erases steel’s “memory,” for his design career. While scavenging in a scrap resulted from his innovative handling of media that the chandelier is spinning ever so slightly. 620 neither rock nor lie still but bounce with the kind of Early on, Big Easy caught the eye of Patrizia Designed by Brigitta Bungard and Inva Cota so it will return to its original shape after being yard in 1981, Arad was struck by the engineering and technology for unique installation pieces. The lamp’s name is the product of grace under in collaboration with Michael Castellana trembling elasticity—and unique sound—that only Moroso, who had just taken over the creative bent. Indeed, the elastic strength of the sheet and craftsmanship of some discarded leather One of these, Ballpark, is a tray holding a group pressure: on the phone with Swarovski and Produced by Claire Corey and edited by Rebecca Roberts H1 Lolita 2004 Send a text message to Lolita: Cage sans Frontières 2009 (917) 774-6264 Corten steel and stainless steel Manufactured by Marzorati Ronchetti, Italy Fabric donated by The Maharam Company, USA Pattern cut and stitched courtesy Notify, France Fixtures donated by The OKE Group, Germany Private collection 621

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16B Hot Tango 2001 17B Hot Ingo 2001 18D Coupe Banana Bowl 2000 21A Tom Rock 1999 23B Wavy 2007 25C Ron Arad with Issey Miyake 27B Voido 2006 28B Clover 2007 30C Ohayon Villa, Marrakesh 32D Zion Square Sculpture, 34C Cappellone 2000 F9 Bodyguard n°4 2007 Laser-sintered polyamide, Laser-sintered polyamide, Epoxy resin Polypropylene, tubular steel, 23D Thermoformed colored ABS and Dai Fujiwara of Polyethylene Polyethylene 2007–ongoing Jerusalem project, 2006 Wool felt Polished and patinated Miyake Design Studio stainless steel, and light- stainless steel, and Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, and plywood plastic and stainless steel Manufactured by Magis SpA, Italy Manufactured by Driade SpA, Italy Polyamide Medium-density fiberboard Manufactured by Alessi SpA, Italy superplastic aluminum emitting diodes (LEDs) xelogen bulb the Netherlands Manufactured by Vitra GmbH, Germany Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy Ripple Chair Dressed Courtesy Magis ddc domus design collection Private collection, London (MDF) Private collection, London Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, Private collection Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, Private collection, London Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy with A-POC (A Piece Private collection, London the Netherlands Pizzuti Collection the Netherlands the Netherlands Of Cloth) 2006 Private collection Private collection 27C Silicone Table model, 2008 28C Panoramic Restaurant at 30D Chair By Its Cover 1989 634 35C Nino Rota and None Rota 19C Notify Showroom, Milan 21B Tom Vac 1997 23C Wavy Two-tone 2007 Injection-molded Zinc, polyamide, silicone Les Diablerets, Gstaad 36D prototypes, 2002 31D l e f t : Patinated and mirror- 2008–ongoing 22A Vacuum-formed polished or Methacrylate and stainless polypropylene, varnished project, 2007 33b Swan Chair model, F10 Bodyguard n°5 2007 16C The Original File Was 17C Perfect Vases 2001 steel, and A-POC (woven Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, polished steel with wood 35D Nino Rota and None Rota Perspex 23A anodized aluminum sheet steel frame the Netherlands Painted fiberglass, painted and leather chair 2001–04 Polished and partially colored Destroyed On . . . 1999 Laser-sintered polyamide polyester and cotton) textile Private collection models, 2002 Private collection, London and tubular steel Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy and laser-cut Perspex, and Steel superplastic aluminum and epoxy resin Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy, r i g h t : Patinated and mirror- l e f t : Epoxy resin Edition by Ron Arad Studio, Italy Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy Polyethylene Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, and Miyake Design Studio, Japan Silicone Table mold, 2008 rotational motor polished steel with metal Model by Magis SpA, Italy Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, Private collection, London Produced by Cappellini SpA, Italy the Netherlands r i g h t : Laser-sintered polyamide The Miyake Issey Foundation Private collection, London Courtesy Magis the Netherlands 19D Squashed Vipps 2008 Acrylic and leather chair Private collection, London Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida Edition by Ron Arad Associates, London Private collection 24A 2006 Manufactured by FreroTech BV, Edition by One Off, London Private collection Polished stainless steel Ripple Chairs 635 22B Tom Vac 1999 the Netherlands Collection Sergio Casoli, Rome 25B Injection-molded 26C Oh-Void 2 2006 Private collection 33c Swan Chair prototype, Manufactured by Vipp, Denmark; 37C Apartment in Place des H1 Lolita 2004 altered by Ron Arad Polypropylene and tubular steel 25D polypropylene shell and 28D Oh-Void 1 2006 2001–04 17D Bouncing Vases 2001 Acrylic 2007 Crystals and light-emitting 16D BabyBoop Vase 2001 Courtesy Ben Brown Fine Arts Manufactured by Vitra GmbH, Germany stainless steel base Acrylic Vosges, Paris Laser-sintered polyamide Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, 32A FPE (Fantastic, Plastic, Fiberglass diodes (LEDs) Courtesy Vitra 27D 2006 BabyBoop Bowls 2001 Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy the Netherlands There Is No Solution Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, Perspex Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, Elastic) 1997 Prototype by Magis SpA, Italy Edition by Swarovski, Austria Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy Collection of Michael G. Jesselson, the Netherlands Private collection, London the Netherlands Silicone and steel Courtesy Magis Courtesy Swarovski Crystal Palace, Stainless steel 20B Project in Marunouchi, New York Private collection, USA Aluminum and polypropylene Private collection 21D Uncut 1997 Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, London Manufactured by Alessi SpA, Italy Tokyo 2006 the Netherlands Manufactured by Kartell, Italy Museo Alessi High density polyurethane Vacuum-formed aluminum 24C Ripple Chair prototypes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 33D MT3 2005 38B Infinity 1999 Send a text message to Lolita: 29C Apartment on Ha-Yarkon Gift of the manufacturer 18B Notify Bag prototype, 2008 sheet and polished 24D 2005 26D Oh-Void 2 2004 national d’art moderne/Centre (917) 774-6264 Private collection, London de création industrielle Polyethylene Polypropylene stainless steel Fiberglass, polyester, and Corian Street, Tel Aviv 629 F5 Thick Vac 2006 Leather and polycarbonate Manufactured by Driade SpA, Italy, 2007 Manufactured by Kartell, Italy Edition by Ron Arad Studio, Italy gelcoat shell on steel base Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, 2006–ongoing Courtesy Kartell Polished aluminum Prototype by Notify, France 31B 3 Skin Chair 2003 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 20C Pic Chairs 1997 Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée the Netherlands Perspex Gift of the manufacturer Courtesy Notify Prototypes by Moroso SpA, Italy; F8 Southern Hemisphere 2007 32B Plywood Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, 21C national d’art moderne/Centre de hand painted by Ron Arad Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Fiberglass, polyester, création industrielle Patinated superplastic Private collection, London the Netherlands 22C Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy 38C Soundtrack 1998 Christiane Leister, and pigment aluminum Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy 18C Unidentified Fragrance 34D MT Rocker Chair 2006 Thermoplastic resin Edition by Ron Arad for The Gallery F7 Even the Odd Balls? 2008 Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, Object 2008 Mourmans, the Netherlands 29D Concrete Stereo 1983 Polished bronze rods F6 Afterthought 2007 Stainless steel the Netherlands Manufactured by Alessi SpA, Italy Zamac (zinc, aluminum, Private collection Private collection, USA Turntable, amplifier, two 32C 3 Skin Joint 2002 Edition by Ron Arad Associates, London Museo Alessi Bronze-patinated Manufactured by Marzorati Ronchetti, 628 speakers, and electronic Private collection, USA magnesium, and copper) alloy superplastic aluminum Italy Carbon fiber and Nomex Manufactured by Métapack, Pinard, Private collection components embedded Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, and Valois for Kenzo Parfums in concrete the Netherlands the Netherlands Private collection, London Private collection, US Edition by One Off, London Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Private collection, USA Germany

Not Made By Hand . . . is formed from a sample of Arad’s handwriting— photographer and friend of the designer, began Like Tom Vac, Uncut is vacuum formed from worn by the chair’s owner. The project was part and he enjoyed the unfamiliar pairing of these rocking body that is also a comfortable chaise Bodyguards 16B, 16C, 17B–D, 18D the words “not made by hand”—extruded in as an actual sculpture. In 1997, Domus magazine aluminum, either mirror polished or anodized, of a concept developed by Miyake and textile components as well as the technique involved in longue, these chairs come in different materials, F9, F10 a concave form. Similarly, Perfect Vases are commissioned Arad to design an installation for and mounted on a low, sculptural, stainless steel engineer Dai Fujiwara called A Piece Of Cloth uniting them. The stereo produced something less proportions, colors, weights, and special effects. Not Made by Hand, Not Made in China is a series The Bodyguard objects, the results of Arad’s inscribed with handwriting that reads, “virtuoso the Milan Furniture Fair. His plan was to install base. However, on Uncut the extra aluminum (A-POC), in which a continuous length of wool, than high-quality sound—a provocative challenge The first variant, made in 2003, an experiment of limited-edition objects—vases, sculptures, experiments with blown aluminum, are all derived reality,” “perfect,” and “do not recycle.” one hundred stacked chairs in a busy intersection around the seat is not trimmed. Almost a decade cotton, or down-filled fabric is designed by a to the sanctity of consumer electronics. with carbon fiber, was followed by Oh-Void 2, with lamps, and bowls—that Arad presented in 2000 at from the same bulbous shape, intersected and in the center of the city, and he put the project later Arad produced two more iterations of this computer and extruded by a machine. Ripple versions in Corian and superplastic aluminum, the annual Milan Furniture Fair. Its title refers to The Gallery Mourmans produced Hot Ingo and The pair of chairs each titled Chair By Its Cover is carved in various ways. In addition to rocking back budget toward a machine that could vacuum popular form, Thick Vac and Tom Block—chunky Chair’s A-POC garment may be worn as a jacket, acrylic, and silicone. The Corian Oh-Void 2 is a particular moment in the history of design and Hot Tango editions of Bouncing Vases. They are a monument to the readymade: two unassuming and forth, they can swivel in a way Arad describes form an aluminum chair in twenty minutes—a polished-aluminum chairs, each developed from with the seat apertures as armholes. carved from blocks made of slices of red or black in Arad’s career when he grappled with knockoffs named after lighting designer Ingo Maurer, one chairs are embraced by gleaming, mirror-polished as omnidirectional. He has called the Bodyguards necessarily quick and efficient process, as Arad two untrimmed Tom Vacs. They contrast sharply Corian bonded together with an adhesive in a of his work being manufactured in China as well of Arad’s closest friends, and Yuki Tango, the steel and thus transformed into something monsters—they are huge and labor intensive— had to complete the project in four months. with the lightness and versatility of their mass- contrasting color, revealing veins and rings like as the promise of several newly introduced rapid- head of Arad’s design team in the early 2000s. Readymades massive and powerful. Why design a chair when so and some resemble a human torso, with colorful The industrially produced version, developed by produced forebears. those of a tree trunk. In the acrylic Oh-Void 2, prototyping techniques. All the objects in the In these bouncing pieces, always exhibited with 29D, 30D+31D many already exist, designed by others? One of insides. Arad gave these works their name after Vitra, is made of injection-molded plastic. It is solid color alternates with transparent layers, series were made by 3-D printing, which in the late an accompanying video, Arad exploits rapid 632 these chairs asks as much through the enigmatic he was teased about the number of security characterized by wide ribs, concentric waves, The Rover Chair (and nearby Aerial Light), giving the colors, which cast shadows and reflect 1990s was most commonly used to create one-off manufacturing’s potential to micromanage both inscription, “Why bark if you can have a dog?” guards at his 2006 show in Dolce & Gabbana’s and a back aperture in the seat. emblematic of Arad’s early work with ready- light, a physicality of their own. The silicone models for objects that would later be produced in the form and the behavior of resin. But the second chair, inscribed, “Why have a dog if Metropol space in Milan. Ripples made objects, was followed by further creative Oh-Void, called There Is No Solution, has a twisted series using traditional manufacturing processes. 633 Pic Chairs (a play on “pictures”) are decorated you can bark yourself?” poses a further question: 625 24A, 24C+D, 25B–D experiments with pre-existing components. In steel spine onto which Arad inscribed Marcel Treating rapid prototypes as final products rather versions of the Tom Vac chair, produced in an Who really needs another chair, anyway? Concrete Stereo, a hi-fi range (record player, Duchamp’s words, “There is no solution, because than templates, Arad turned the new process into edition of twenty unique pieces. Arad made these These concave figure-eight seats are made of Tom Vacs fiberglass chairs by hand as studies for Tom speakers, and amplifier) was coated with there is no problem.” an advanced production method. injection-molded thermoplastic, a malleable Voids 20C, 21A–D, 22A–C, 23A Vac. He experimented with applying pigments, material ideally suited to highlighting Ripple protective resin and then encased in concrete All the Void chaises were produced in limited The Original File Was Destroyed On . . . vases, 26c, 26D, 27B, 27D, 28D polyester, newspaper, tissue, and luminous Chair’s soft waves. In 2006 Arad collaborated slabs. Soon afterward the concrete was partially editions, save Voido, which is manufactured in rendered in resin, are guaranteed to be unique, Many of Arad’s furniture designs can stand on wire directly to the mold before the fiberglass with fashion designer Issey Miyake to design chipped away, exposing the rusting steel The Voids make up one of Arad’s most populous series by the Italian company Magis. as the digital design files from which they were their own as artworks despite their functional was inserted. beneath. At the time of this experiment Arad beginnings, but Tom Vac, named for Tom Vack, an “outfit” for Ripple Chair that could also be families. Formed by two ellipses joined into a 631 created have been destroyed. Coupe Banana Bowl was interested in both concrete and electronics,