Marion Baruch
"Ron Ron" Chair from the Ultramobile Collection

"Ron Ron" Chair from the Ultramobile Collection
"Ron Ron" Chair from the Ultramobile Collection
"Ron Ron" Chair from the Ultramobile Collection
DesignerItalian, born Romania, 1929
CultureItalian
Titles
  • "Ron Ron" Chair from the Ultramobile Collection
Datedesigned 1971, made 1971–1972
MediumUpholstery and foam
DimensionsOverall: 31 in. H × 31 in. Diam. (78.7 × 78.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Dennis Freedman Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2019.196
Non exposé

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Provenance[Christie's, London, October 4, 2000, lot 141] Dennis Freedman Collection, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Exhibition History"Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985, the Dennis Freedman Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 14–November 29, 2020; Yale School of Architecture Gallery, New Haven, February 21–July 8, 2022.

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