Puch stool by Ron Arad
For the non European readers: Puch is an Austrian manufacturer of all sorts of movable things as cars, tanks, motorbikes and mopeds. In my youth in The Hague you didn’t belong if you didn’t drive a
“Puch Moped”
Actually this
photo from Brom Brom
is better (if you click the enlarged version you will see a Stork on the T-shirt which means it is probably a T-shirt issued by the The Hague Puch club chapter….)
RON ARAD
Puch stool, ca. 1981
Chrome-plated tubular steel, moped seat. 32 1/2 in. (82.6 cm.) high Manufactured by One Off Ltd., UK. Back of seat printed with PUCH.
ESTIMATE $8,000-10,000LITERATURE Yukio Futagawa, Sticks and Stones. One Offs & Short Runs. Ron Arad 1980-1990, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1990, pp. 38-39; Deyan Sudjic, Ron Arad, London, 1999, pp. 20 and 100-101