4. Little Heavy Chairs by Ron Arad
British design is known worldwide for its radical, challenging approach. One of Ron Arad’s early successes was a chair made from the seat of a Rover car.
This metal chair, Little Heavy, was designed in 1989 and made in his own workshop in London. Hand beaten and welded out of stainless steel, it addresses the relationship between craft and machine production.
The chair was made in an edition of twenty and priced as a work of art, not a mass-market product. Later, in 1991, it was translated into upholstered foam for an Italian manufacturer.
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