Rover Car Chair
English, born Israel, 1951
Manufactured by One Off
British, founded 1979
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Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, a cluster of industrial designers, including London-based Ron Arad, hungry for experimentation and inhibited by the economic climate in Europe, began exploring new methods and approaches to design problems. One of Arad's most significant early works, this chair is made from a Rover 2000 car seat mounted on a frame of Kee Klamp scaffolding originally designed in the 1930s. The design illustrates Arad's preoccupation with experimentation and innovation, combining original and preexisting objects into inventive constructions with new uses in an effort to reawaken interest in these previously discarded materials and forms.
Ron Arad (Designer)
Rover 2000 car seat mounted on a frame of Kee Klamp scaffolding, tubular steel frame, and vinyl upholstery
76 × 88 × 66 cm (30 × 34 1/2 × 26 in.)
Purchased with funds provided by the Architecture & Design Society
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