Vladimir Kagan and Ralph Pucci have together designed a limited edition fiberglass chair, which is functional and a work of art as well. The former is an award-winning furniture designer and nominee for a Luxist Readers’ Choice Award for Decor whereas the latter is Luxist Readers’ Choice Award for Decor. There is an interesting history connected to the actual birth of this special fiberglass chair. The two artists were once involved in a conversation while examining sketches of Kagan’s 1950’s era designs.

The sketches were never produced but they were made of many materials including fiberglass. When Pucci saw the sketches, he immediately realized that his sculptor and mannequin workshop perfectly fitted the bill to materialize the concept and produce it as well. He also thought it was all the more relevant because of an exhibit of a noted Israeli designer Ron Arads’s carbon fiber armchairs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The fiberglass collection is available in a limited edition of 100 now at the Ralph Pucci Showroom in New York the Los Angeles Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Ca, and the J. Bachelor DCOTA Design Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The chairs are available in foundry black, foundry grey and foundry white as well as clear. They are available from $9,000 to $15,000 each. The chairs will also be on display following a lecture by Pucci and Kagan at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum at 2 East 91st Street in New York on October 29, 2009.

Via: Luxist