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A 'Big Heavy' chair, designed 1989
Details
RON ARAD (B. 1951)
A 'Big Heavy' chair, designed 1989
executed by The Gallery Mourmans, Maastricht, The Netherlands, number 11 from the edition of 20, patinated steel
27 high x 27 wide x 35 in. deep (68.5 x 68.5 x 89 cm.)
side engraved Ron Arad 11/20
A 'Big Heavy' chair, designed 1989
executed by The Gallery Mourmans, Maastricht, The Netherlands, number 11 from the edition of 20, patinated steel
27 high x 27 wide x 35 in. deep (68.5 x 68.5 x 89 cm.)
side engraved Ron Arad 11/20
Provenance
Ben Brown Gallery, London;
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Other examples of this model illustrated:
Sticks & Stones, One Offs & Short Runs, Ron Arad 1980-1990, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, pp. 114-15;
P. Antonelli, J. Safran Foer, M.-L. Jousset, Ron Arad: No Discipline, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009, p. 47.
Sticks & Stones, One Offs & Short Runs, Ron Arad 1980-1990, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, pp. 114-15;
P. Antonelli, J. Safran Foer, M.-L. Jousset, Ron Arad: No Discipline, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009, p. 47.
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