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Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, he moved to London in his early 20s to further his studies in architecture. He fell into furniture design after walking out of his office job and into a scrapyard, where he picked up some tubular steel scaffolding and a 1960s Rover 2000 car seat to make what would later become a 20th-century design classic. He set up a studio in Covent Garden and waited for someone to notice his comfy recycled seats. “Nobody was interested,” he recalls. “Then one Boxing Day there was a knock on the door and it was a little guy with a French accent. I said, ‘Sorry, we’re closed.’ ‘But I want to buy these chairs,’ he says. ‘Come in,’ I said. ‘We’re open.’ ”
Info: Home Office Design Blog
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