Lot 38
  • 38

Ron Arad b. 1951

Estimate
40,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • `Rolling Volume'
  • signed and numbered `Ron Arad 19/20'
  • 80 by 75.5 by 101 cm.
  • 31½ by 29¾ by 39¾ in.
polished stainless steel

Provenance

The Gallery Mourmans, Maastricht

Patrick Brillet Fine Art, London

Literature

Alexander von Vegesack (ed.), Sticks & Stones One Offs & Short Runs Ron Arad 1980-1990, exhibition catalogue, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1990, pp. 110-11
Deyan Sudjic, Ron Arad, London, 1999, pp. 62-63
Matthew Collings, Ron Arad talks to Matthew Collings about designing chairs, vases, buildings and..., London, 2004, pp. 98-99

Condition

Piece has a highly reflective mirror polished surface which is not possible to replicate exactly in the catalogue illustration. Excellent condition overall.
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Catalogue Note

`This volume piece touches the floor at a tangent because its rear is heavily weighted with lead ballast.  The weight tips it upwards, altering the conventional sitting and rocking action of this kind of chair - the sitter `plays' against an invisible weight'  Matthew Collings