Ron Arad is a leading and eminent industrial designer, architect and artist, known for his creative and innovative designs. He was awarded the Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in recognition of his “sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry” in 2002.
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About his life
Ron Aradis anIsraeliindustrial designer,artist, andarchitect, born in Tel Aviv in 1951, educated at theJerusalem Academy of Artand later at theArchitectural Associationin London. After graduating, Ron Arad co-founded withCaroline Thormanthe design and production studioOne Offin1981,and later, in1989, moved on to createRon Arad Associates(architecture and design practice). In2008,ultimately, Ron Arad Architects was established alongside Ron Arad Associates.
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What are Arad’s style main features ?
Ron Arad’s constant experimentation with the boundaries and possibilities of materials, from metals to composites, and hisradical re-conceptionof the form and structure of objects and buildings, large and small, has put him at the forefront of contemporary design and architecture.
During Arad’s practice, design had taken a radical turn as of the1980s, deconstructing the rigid ideology of theBauhaus– often by applying a striking sense of humor. Avant-garde designers likePhilippe Starckand Ron Arad brazenly borrowed from the “historical closet” of previous styles, using them to biomorphic pieces with whimsical names like Arad’sBig Easy Red Chair,After Spring Before Summer Chaise Loungeand theEmpty Chair.
His early furniture, combining materials associated with the high-tech style and the French objets-trouvés to produce poetic post-industrial “readymades.” Whether working on furniture or architecture, everything Arad does aims to demonstrate his belief thatdesign has a responsibilityto not only have utility, but also be abletosurpriseanddelight.
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What are his most famous creations?
PRODUCT
Some of the early, more celebrated works by Arad include the remarkableRover Chair, produced by joining together two ready-made pieces, a scrap yard seat of a Rover 200 fused with a frame of Kee-Klamp scaffolding. Other products such as the stereo cast in concrete produced in 1983, and theTinker chair由殴打钢铁,接管了伦敦of the 80s by rage, the people, overindulged in the spirit of post-punk nihilism and harsh individualism, took a deep fascination to Arad’s methods of fusing used scrapes of materials, and that demonstrated to them, an escape from the infestations of urbanism.
SCULPTURE
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ARCHITECTURE
Architectural projects include the foyer at theTel Aviv Opera House(1994),Hotel Puerta America, Madrid (2005),Hotel Duomo, Rimini (2006),Mediaciteshopping centre in Liege, Belgium (2009), and the award-winningDesign Museum Holon, Israel (2010).
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Info sources:
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/artist/ron-arad-ra-elect
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/artist/ron-arad-ra-elect
