Polyethylene tub armchair, ‘Little Albert’, designed by Ron Arad.
Identifier
FPF483
Title
Polyethylene tub armchair, ‘Little Albert’, designed by Ron Arad.
Date
Designed in 2000.
Description
A moulded polyethylene tub armchair, called ‘Little Albert’, designed by Ron Arad and manufactured by Moroso, Italy.
Full Description
This chair, called ‘Little Albert’, was designed by Ron Arad in 2000 as part of a range called Victoria and Albert, which includes settees and other chairs. Made of rotationally-moulded polyethylene with integral colour, it is waterproof and fade-resistant, and therefore suitable for outdoor use. Another version, with a steel frame, padded with polyurethane foam and with a cloth cover, is made for indoor use.
Ron Arad was born in Israel in 1951 and studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Art before coming to London to study architecture, graduating in 1979. He started his own practice in 1981, opening an office/showroom in Covent Garden called One Off Ltd. The practice later moved to Chalk Farm, in north London, and the name changed to Ron Arad Associates in 1998. He was Professor of Design Product at the Royal College of Art from 1997 to 2009. He is primarily known for his furniture designs, particularly the ‘Rover’ chair, designed in 1981 using a salvaged car seat from a Rover mounted within a tubular steel frame made of scaffolding poles. In 1988 he designed an armchair made of bent and formed stainless steel sheet, called The Big Easy.
For another Ron Arad chair in the Collection see FPF471.
Ron Arad was born in Israel in 1951 and studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Art before coming to London to study architecture, graduating in 1979. He started his own practice in 1981, opening an office/showroom in Covent Garden called One Off Ltd. The practice later moved to Chalk Farm, in north London, and the name changed to Ron Arad Associates in 1998. He was Professor of Design Product at the Royal College of Art from 1997 to 2009. He is primarily known for his furniture designs, particularly the ‘Rover’ chair, designed in 1981 using a salvaged car seat from a Rover mounted within a tubular steel frame made of scaffolding poles. In 1988 he designed an armchair made of bent and formed stainless steel sheet, called The Big Easy.
For another Ron Arad chair in the Collection see FPF471.
Condition
Good, some scuff marks.
Materials
Polyethylene.
Physical Dimensions
H. 70
W. 71
D. 60
W. 71
D. 60
Marks
Moulded on base: ‘Ron Arad for Morosco Victoria and Albert Collection’.
Provenance
Purchased by the Frederick Parker Foundation in c.2010
Notes
For details on Ron Arad see:
Ron Arad | Vitra
Ron Arad | Vitra
