SPEED CHAIR
$1100.00

She's a Fast Chair

Artist Boris Bally has created bold, beautiful chairs out of actual traffic signs: This urban expression of glass-on-metal represents many years of collecting hard-to-find and specially weathered signage gleaned from ten-foot-high, thirty thousand pound scrap piles. Each of these reflective pearls represents sifting through thousands of ordinary oyster shells. Bally extracts the most important elements of the gems he finds, joins them to create exciting color and image combinations, and adds details through hand-sawing and filing. The rhythmic quality of the design elements is a metaphor for strength and stability, as well as the danger and pain of life, mixed with a disarming edge of humor. Bally's work has been featured in many museums throughout the country, including the Smithsonian Institute and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Handmade in Rhode Island.

• Item ID: 13543
• Materials: metal, cork
• 48" H x 16" W x 21" D
• some assembly required.
  
  Due to the handmade nature of this item, each is one of a kind and will vary. A photograph of the specific chair available at the time of purchase can be provided upon request.
  
• Only ground shipping is available for this item. Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery. Please select economy shipping, when ordering.
  
  At this time, this item can only be shipped to the contiguous 48 states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, or Puerto Rico. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Boris Bally

Until Boris Bally began experimenting with recycled traffic signage, nobody had seen the potential elegance of this discarded aluminum. He has since challenged himself to discover its properties, in order to create bold objects of beauty which transcend their common roots. See all creations.