The chair is a postmodernist design, combining a car seat with a structural tubing frame.

Arad had left his employment with a firm of architects,[1] and obtained the parts to make the chair from a scrapyard in Chalk Farm, London.

[4][5] The red[6][7] leather seat is from a Rover P6[8][9] and is housed in a black[10] painted curved steel frame made from a Kee Klamp milking stall.

[15] Furniture maker Joe Hall visited Arad's Covent Garden shop in the mid-1980s and then collaborated with him to make further chairs.

[24] The chair has formed part of various exhibitions, including those at London's Design Museum,[13] Barbican Art Gallery,[10] Timothy Taylor Gallery,[28] Paris's Centre Pompidou[11][29] and New York's Museum of Modern Art.