Description

The Tom Vac Chair began as part of the "Totem" sculpture, featuring 70 stacking chairs commissioned by Domus for the 1997 Salone del Mobile. Based on Ron Arad's earlier sketches for a Tel Aviv dining room, its wave-profile seat shell posed manufacturing challenges. A small aluminum series was produced, and with Vitra, Arad quickly developed a mass-production version, shifting from his usual one-off designs.

Details

Material Description:

• Scale: 1:6, 98 x 130 x 106 mm
• Material: Plastic, chromed steel wire

Designer

Ron Arad, 1999

Ron Arad's constant experimentation with the boundaries and possibilities of materials, from metals to composites, and his radical re-conception of the form and structure of objects and buildings, large and small, has put him at the forefront of contemporary design and architecture.