Artist Boris Bally has created this bold, beautiful chair out of actual speed limit 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.
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