Puch stool by Ron Arad

Ron Arad Puch stool

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_zwart“Puch Moped”

Actually this

Puch_Tara_201photo 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 $8,000-10,000

LITERATURE 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

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Phillips de Pury & Company: PETER ZUMTHOR, Chaise lounge


PETER ZUMTHOR Chaise lounge, 2007

Bent mahogany, chrome-plated tubular metal, leather. 25 x 77 3/4 x 20 1/8 in. (63.5 x 197.5 x 51.1 cm.) Produced by Dietiker AG, Switzerland. Number one from an edition of three.
ESTIMATE $6,000-9,000

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Rover Two-Seater Sofa and Lounge Chair by Ron Arad

Rover two-seater sofa and Rover lounge chair by Ron Arad, 1981

Painted tubular steel, Rover car seats. Sofa: 31 1/2 x 48 x 36 in. (80 x 121.9 x 91.4 cm.); chair: 30 in. (76.2 cm.) high Manufactured by One Off Ltd., UK. Underside of each with decal “ONE/Off/LONDON/ 01 379 7796” (2).
ESTIMATE $15,000-20,000

LITERATURE Deyan Sudjic, Ron Arad: Restless Furniture, New York, 1989, pp. 30 and 82 for the sofa; Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Modern Chairs, Cologne, 1993, p. 116; Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Cologne, 1997, p. 562 for the chair; Deyan Sudjic, Ron Arad, London, 1999, p. 10 for the chair

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Phillips de Pury & Company: ROY FLEETWOOD,

Wing sofa with integrated side tables by Roy Fleetwood, ca. 1988

Leather, brushed tubular steel, glass, plastic. 31 x 118 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (78.7 x 301 x 55.2 cm.), fully extended Manufactured in a small series by Vitra, Switzerland.
ESTIMATE $10,000-15,000

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Phillips de Pury & Company: MAARTEN VAN SEVEREN, Pair of No II chairs

Pair of aluminum No II chairs, by Maarten van Sevener, ca. 1998

Bent aluminum sheet, tubular aluminum. Each: 30 1/2 in. (77.5 cm.) high Produced by Maarten Van Severen MEUBELEN, Belgium (2).
ESTIMATE $5,000-7,000

LITERATURE Maarten Van Severen, Maarten Van Severen: Work, Oostkamp, 2004, pp. 36 and 39, pp. 38 and 40 for similar examples and p. 42 for a drawing

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