Ron arad biography designer
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Ron Arad
museum collections • • Ron Arad (B. ) is among the most respected and influential designers working today, he is celebrated for his fluid, curvaceous style, crafting deceptively simple, highly skilled pieces from materials such as aluminium, bronze and steel. Defying easy categorisation, Arad's work consistently reinvents the everyday object, transforming it into something daring, witty and provocative. Bookshelves wind their way up walls, tables curve up corners, chairs unravel like ribbon, all retaining their essential function while questioning their perceived limitations. These playful but daring designs of everyday objects is also demonstrated in Ron's earrings which he based on his light 'Hot Ingo'. The polyamide spiral wrapped around a long rod has an ever-changing diameter. Either recoiling into a tight small ball or concertinaing out to span the length of the rod, these earrings can be distorted into a series of variations depending on
centre national d’art plastique, paris, france
design museum, london, uk
design museum, nürnberg, germany
design museum, osaka, japan
design museum, ghent, belgium
detroit institute of the arts, detroit, usa
fond national d’art contemporain, paris, france
high museum of art, atlanta, usa
landesmuseum baden-württemberg, stuttgart, germany
manchester art gallery, manchester, uk
metropolitan museum of art, new york, usa
musée des arts décoratifs, montreal, canada
musée des arts décoratifs, paris, france
musée des arts décoratifs, paris, france
musée des beaux arts, montreal, canada
musée national d’art moderne, paris, france
museum of fine arts, boston, usa
museum of fine arts, houston, usa
museum of modern art, new york, usa
museum of arts and design, new york, usa
neue pinakothek der moderne, munich, germany
nelson-atkins museum of art, kansas city, usa
powerhouse, sydney, australia
rohsska design museum The biography of Ron Arad
The biography of Ron Arad
Israeli designer and architect Ron Arad got his international breakthrough with the Rover Chair in , and has since become one of the best known furniture designers in the world.
Ron Arad studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem from and thereafter moved to London to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. After having obtained his grad in , Arad worked at an architects office before he, in , founded his own design and production studio; One Off Ltd together with Caroline Thorman. During the same year he designed the Rover Chair, made of used car seats from ’s Rover cars combined with ’s scaffolding, which became Arad's international breakthrough.
Five years later the Well-Tempered Chair, made of folded stainless steel and wing nuts, for Vitra was released as a part of the first Vitra Edition, with objects to be launched and produced in limited quantities. In he desig Ron Arad Israel / United Kingdom, b.