Ron Arad (industrial designer)
Ron Arad RA ( born 1951 in Tel Aviv, Israel ) is a British, London-based, internationally renowned industrial designer and architect.
Life
The son of a painter and a photographer Ron Arad grew up in Tel Aviv. In 1971 he began his studies at the Art Academy in Jerusalem, from where to London, he went to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1973. The study he completed in 1979 and worked briefly in an architectural office until he began with simple means to design and manufacture furniture.
In 1986 he moved the showroom of the Neal Street in the Shelton Street. Later, the establishment of the ancient showroom at the Vitra Design Museum was issued. For the 10th anniversary of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris Arad attracted attention in 1987 with the machinery of " Sticks and Stones ". From chairs that were brought by the visitors, this machine pressed uniform cube from which Ron Arad put together a wall. In the same year he exhibited at Documenta 8 in Kassel, the chair-like structure " carped Chair" together with the " Curtin Call" from.
Together with C. Norton and S. McAdam Ron Arad won the 1988 international competition for the design of the lobby and the entrance areas of the Opera House in Tel Aviv and in 1989 founded together with Alison Brooks, a Canadian architect Ron Arad Associates Ltd.. With the 1994 first introduced in Bookworm, which is produced in a modified plastic version of the Milan-based company Kartell, Arad scored his biggest commercial success. Is already one of the Bookworm to modern furniture classics. The Bookworm preceded the designs " This Mortal Coil" (1993) and " One Way or Another ". A more recent design is the " rtw " Shelf (1996).
Ron Arad is now working both involved with various companies such as Moroso, B & B, Alessi, Swatch, Kartell, Adidas, in the commercial sector ( One Off Ltd.). Together, as well, together with Alison Brooks, in architecture (Ron Arad Associates Ltd.. ).
2010 was the first Design Museum in Israel opened the Design Museum Holon in Cholon, the Arad had planned together with Bruno Asa.
Ron Arad was 1994-1997 Professor of Product Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. From 1997 to 2009 he was professor at the Royal College of Art in London, first for furniture design and later for product design.
Arad is the architect of the Bauhaus Museum Built in 2008 in Tel Aviv.
Ron Arad is the father of singer-songwriter Lail Arad.