These days there are people around the world who believe that the Holocaust is a lie, a myth, a hoax, a conspiracy by those with a political or ideological agenda.

As a third generation of the Holocaust I could not sit quietly, I had to use my art and create a project that would express how deep was the burn that the Holocaust left on my grandparents’ generation and the entire Jewish community to this day.

 

When the Jewish people were sent to the concentration camps, the Nazis engraved a number on their skin, this number was their new name, their Identity was irrelevant, they became nothing but a number. My grandfather survived the horrors of the Holocaust but was doomed for his entire life to live with a consant reminder of what he went through, his number, the sign that striped him from his name, striped him from his identity.

 

"The Numbers Chair" is an edgy, industrial chair.

The design of the chair is influenced by the world's largest furniture retailers. These furniture retails produce in great masses, just like the killing of the Jewish people was during the Holocaust.

 

The leather is a reference to human skin, and when you look closely at the chair you can see scorched numbers on the leather.

These scorched numbers represent the engraved numbers.

 

Materials:

American walnut hardwood

Faux leather

Iron pipe