Enter amount & configure Configure the options below Estimated time of delivery: 8 weeksYou haven't made a gift list yet. Make your own gift list! Glides for Hard Floor All prices on Designcollectors are including 21% VAT. The costs of administration, packaging and insurance are included. Over € 250, transport to some 30 countries is free of charge. For orders below € 250, there are additional shipping charges, according to the destination. Companies abroad can purchase all products from Designcollectors excluding VAT.Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: in our second story today about Ron Arad, the London designer's Tom Vac chair has been reinterpreted by more than 20 design studios into forms including swings, speakers and a representation of an udder. The Tailor My Tom Vac exhibition during Clerkenwell Design Week will include pieces by 23 architects and designers who have each put their spin on Ron Arad's chair to mark its 15th birthday. "It's very interesting to see other people taking the same idea and expressing their responses," said Arad.
"Inspiration comes from strange places sometimes, so it's good to know that Tom Vac is being used as a starting point as well as being an end product." Each group started with the corrugated polypropylene seat and tubular steel legs of the Vitra-produced chair to create the one-off pieces. Hawkins Brown has made a nod to TV show Baywatch by turning the seat into a lifeguard's chair, named Pamela after one of the show's best-known stars. Two groups have turned the chair into a swing: HLW International has used a wooden frame, while Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan have suspended it from a metal structure and mechanism that turns a wooden board. M Moser Associates added four upturned milk bottle forms to the seat, with white blobs dripping through the surface to look as if they are "feeding" four small versions of the chair positioned below. Grey pool noodles have been squeezed through the hole in the plastic shell in the design by Emulsion Architecture. Jump Studios and Millenium Models have used the seat to support a record player, Scott Brownrigg Ltd has moulded the curved form into a gramophone-shaped speaker for a smartphone dock and ID:SR has employed it to amplify the sound from a stereo.
Other contributors include Aecom, Morey Smith, Farrells, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris , El Ultimo Grito Studio and CJCT Studios. Arad first designed the chair to stack 100 high for his Totem installation in Milan, commissioned by Italian magazine Domus in 1997. Vitra put the design into production two years later. The designs will go on display at Vitra's London showroom, 30 Clerkenwell Road, tomorrow until 22 May for Clerkenwell Design Week. The showroom is also hosting the launch of the Dezeen Book of Interviews tomorrow evening., Black / Silver Designed by Ron Arad, Tom Vac is an elegantly organic and comfortable chair with a generously proportioned seat. Its corrugated structure provides both flexibility and stability and the chair stackable (up to 5 high) for easy storage. The powder-coated base option makes Tom Vac suitable for outdoor use as the materials forming the plastic shell prevent sun-bleaching. Please note: Not all of our ranges are on display in our furniture departments.
Please callyour nearest John Lewisto check before you visit. 0% APR Representative: If you buy this product in our shops, it's eligible for Interest Free Credit, which is available when you spend £1000 or more on selected home products. Terms and conditions apply: find out more H75 x W64 x D64cm Delivered by our approved supplier Standard UK delivery within 10 weeks International delivery not available How we may still help you Vitra Miniature Tom Vac Chair by Ron Arad Miniature Ron Arad Tom Vac Chair Vitra Miniatures Collection Scale 1:6 Vitra Miniature Knotted Chair by Marcel Wanders. This miniature reproduction has a height of 5 inches. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand! Vitra Miniature Tom Vac Chair by Ron Arad. Miniature scale model of Ron Arad's Tom Vac chairs. The Tom Vac Chair was designed by Ron Arad in 1999. It is one of the few Ron Arad classics that were designed with the specific purpose
to go into mass production. Ron Arad's Tom Vac Chair is a comfortable and elegant design chair. Its plastic seat shell is generously proportioned and offers a high degree of comfort. This Vitra miniature chair ships in a small wooden Vitra box which is perfect for storage or display. This Vitra collectible miniature design chair is constructed to the exact specifications of the original but at a much smaller scale of 1:6. The construction, materials and colors correspond to the historical Vitra Design Museum collection original, right down to the last detail. Because each miniature modern chair is so true to the original, the miniature chair is not only a valuable collector’s item, but also an ideal illustrative material for universities, colleges of design and architects. The Vitra miniatures collection present the most important classics of modern furniture history in miniature scale. The miniature collection is unique worldwide. The Vitra Design Museum was founded in Weil am Rhein, Germany, in 1950 by Willi Fehlbaum.
The modern furniture and design collection of Vitra is world reknown for its emphasis on modern design furniture. The Vitra Design Museum collection includes a fascinating collection of over 224 modern chairs which are all icons of modern furniture. These modern chairs are prominently displayed in the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. Vitra's modern design collection provides a comprehensive overview of the most beautiful design objects including modern furniture, lighting and accessories for the home. Part of the Vitra Miniature Chair Collection. Each Vitra Miniature is packaged in a small wooden crate. Dimensions of Miniature Chair: 5"H x 4.5"W x 3.75"D Material: plastic, chrome plated steel, plastic glides In stock and ready to ship.VitraTom VacInformationProducts of the familyDesigner The elegant plastic shell of Tom Vac offers comfortable seating not only in interior spaces but also in outdoor settings: special additives in the moulded polypropylene shell retard the fading of colours, and the powder-coated finish of the base makes the chair suited for use on the terrace or in the garden.
Since the chair can be stacked, it is especially useful in places where large numbers of chairs are required.The Tom Vac chair with a white plastic shell and limited edition ivory base is part of the "White Collection" and "Home Stories for Spring 2016". Your gift: If you purchase two or more chairs from the "Home Stories for Spring 2016" collection at a participating dealer between 1 April and 31 August 2016, you will receive a Toolbox by Arik Levy in the colour of your choice as a free gift.2)1)2)Seat shell: corrugated structure, dyed-through polypropylene.Base: stackable four-legged tubular steel base, chrome-plated or powder-coated in silver (RAL 9006). The version with a powder-coated finish is suitable for outdoor use. The base is also galvanised. Fitted with plastic glides for carpet or felt glides for hard floors.Stacking: Tom Vac can be stacked on the floor up to 5 chairs high.Note: special additives retard the fading of colours due to UV radiation. However, if the chair is exposed to sunlight for prolonged periods, the colour may change over time.