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RON ARAD "Chair by its cover, why dog ?"

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RON ARAD Chair by its cover, why dog ?
RON ARAD
"Chair by its cover,
why dog?" 1989
handmade by Ron Arad at
One-Off London
an envelope of a curved steel wall, the exterior blackened
the interior polished, embracing
a "found chair"
39 in. (99 cm) high
Estimate: $25,000-35,000 <p>EXHIBITED
Ron Arad: Sticks and Stones, One Offs & Short Runs, 1980-1990, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1990
Before and After Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2000 <p>ILLUSTRATED
Dejan Sudjic, Ron Arad,
London, 1999, p. 124
Claire Downey, Neo-Furniture, London, 1992, p. 37 <p>LITERATURE
Alexander von Vegesack, Ron Arad: Sticks and Stones, One Offs & Short Runs, 1980-1990, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1990, pp. 122-123
<p>As well as providing an enclosure and armrest for the chair, the curved mirror provides endless changing views of distorted images of the chair.
This unique work forms part of a series of four chairs by their covers: "Why Dog," "Why Bark When You Have a Dog?", "Why Have A Dog When You Can Bark?" and "Reflection on Another Chair." Arad notes that these chairs "are a private joke between him and his workers," and he feels they were produced during one of his finest periods of designing.
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