Tag: Ron Arad

Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, educated at the Jerusalem Academy of Art and later at the Architectural Association in London, Ron Arad co-founded with Caroline Thorman the design and production studio One Off in 1981 and later, in 1989, Ron Arad Associates architecture and design practice. In 2008 Ron Arad Architects was established alongside Ron Arad Associates.

From 1994 to 1999 he established the Ron Arad Studio, design and production unit in Como, Italy. He was Professor of Design Product at the Royal College of Art in London up until 2009. he was awarded the 2011 London Design Week Medal for design excellence and was became a Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2013.

His constant experimentation with the possibilities of materials such as steel, aluminum or polyamide and his radical re-conception of the form and structure of furniture has put him at the forefront of contemporary design and architecture.

Alongside his limited edition studio work, Arad designs for many leading international companies including Kartell, Vitra, Moroso, Fiam, Driade, Alessi, Cappellini, Cassina, WMF and Magis among many others.

Ron Arad has designed a number of Public Art pieces, most recently the Vortext in Seoul, Korea, and the Kesher Sculpture at Tel Aviv University.

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Fantastic Plastic Elastic – FPE Chair by Ron Arad

FPE Chair by Ron Arad

Fantastic Plastic Elastic is the name concealed behind the initials of the FPE Chair. The seat/back body is grafted onto the supporting aluminum structure, giving the chair both qualities of resistance and flexibility and characteristics of lightness and practicality. Easy to stack, it lends itself to characterizing communal places (from bars to work spaces) and domestic spaces. Thanks to the materials it is made of, it lives perfectly outside. Minimum order quantity of 2.

via Umodern

Alexander Payne from Phillips de Pury ditches term “Design Art”

Oh Void chair by Ron Arad

Above Ron Arad’s Oh Void chair sold for $190,000 in 2005: Art or Design?

Alexander Payne, the auctioneer who coined the term design art, is sick of the term and has stopped using it, he revealed last night at a debate organised by the Rabih Hage Gallery. Payne, who is director of design for auction house Phillips de Pury, said: “We don’t call our auctions design art any more – we were getting tired of [the term] being used incorrectly. Instead, items sold at auction by Phillips de Pury will be classified as either design or art.

The hybrid term design art was created by Payne for an exhibition in 1999, and debate over its exact meaning has simmered ever since as one-offs and limited editions by designers including Zaha Hadid and Ron Arad have commanded unprecedented prices at auction. In 2006, a Marc Newson Lockheed Lounge fetched $968,000 at Sotheby’s.

Other participants in the debate were designer Jurgen Bey, artist Richard Woods, and writers David Carlson and Judd Tully. Journalist and author Max Fraser was chairman.

The panel was divided about alternative names for the design art phenomenon, putting forward suggestions including neo-baroque-ism, neo-expressionism, arts and crafts revivalism, vulgarism and Dubai chique.

via ICONEYE[note as the article seemd having dissappeared this is a link to the site]

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on November 24, 2011 at 4:52

Pair of Ron Arad designed Rocking Chairs

Arad, Ron (b. 1951)

Sale Title MODERN DESIGN Location London, South Kensington Sale Date Mar 04, 2008 Lot Number 0214 Sale Number 5337 Creator

PAIR OF ROCKING CHAIRS Lot Title RON ARAD

Estimate 2,000 – 3,000 British pounds

designed 1981, for One-Off, black-enamelled and chromed steel, plastic-coated springs 58.5cm. high (2)

via LotFinder