In the final movie in our Most Loved video series, Ron Arad reflects on how the Tom Vac chair he designed for a one-off sculpture became one of his most commercially successful products.
Arad originally designed the Tom Vac chair for an installation for Domus magazine during Milan design week in 1997.
Called Totem, the sculpture comprised 100 chairs stacked on top of each other in a square in Milan. Arad says he used the commission as an "excuse" to design a chair made from vacuum-formed aluminium.
"I was always fascinated by vacuum forming aluminium," he says in the movie, which was filmed at his studio in London.
"It is an amazing thing. The Tom Vac started as a component for a sculpture - the chair was an excuse."
The Tom Vac chair features a ribbed aluminium shell with a hole in the base, which allows it to be stacked.
"The shell is corrugated and the waves are not there only for aesthetic appearance," Arad explains.
"The morphology of the surface gives the shell the strength. Function and aesthetics don't go against each other, they work together."
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