Ron Arad

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Ron Arad (2004)
The Bauhaus Museum in Tel Aviv.
The Design Museum in Cholon .

Ron Arad RA (* 1951 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) is a British , London-based, internationally known industrial designer and architect .

Life

The Big Easy armchair

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 he went to London in 1973 to the Architectural Association School of Architecture . He finished his studies in 1979 and worked for a short time in an architecture office until he began to design and manufacture furniture with simple means.

In 1986 the showroom moved from Neal Street to Shelton Street. The furnishings of the old showroom were later exhibited in the Vitra Design Museum . For the 10th anniversary of the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, Arad caused a sensation in 1987 with the "Sticks and Stones" machinery. This machine pressed uniform cubes from chairs brought by the visitors, from which Ron Arad assembled a wall. In the same year he exhibited the chair-like structure "Carped Chair" at Documenta 8 in Kassel together with the "Curtain Call".

Together with C. Norton and S. McAdam, Ron Arad won the international competition for the design of the foyer and entrance areas of the Tel Aviv Opera House in 1988 and founded Ron Arad Associates Ltd. in 1989 together with Alison Brooks, a Canadian architect. With the Bookworm , first presented in 1994 , which is manufactured in a modified plastic version by the Milan-based company Kartell, Arad achieved its greatest commercial success to date. The Bookworm is already one of the modern furniture classics. The Bookworm was preceded by the designs "This Mortal Coil" (1993) and "One Way or Another". A more recent draft is the “rtw” shelf (1996).

Today, Ron Arad works with various companies such as Moroso, B&B, Alessi , Swatch , Kartell, Adidas , in the contract sector (One Off Ltd.), and, together with Alison Brooks, in the architecture sector (Ron Arad Associates Ltd. ).

In 2010, the Holon Design Museum in Cholon was opened as the first design museum in Israel , which Arad had planned together with Bruno Asa .

Ron Arad was professor for product design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1994 to 1997 . From 1997 to 2009 he was a professor at the Royal College of Art in London, initially for furniture design and later for product design.

Arad is the architect of the Bauhaus Museum in Tel Aviv, which opened in 2008 .

Ron Arad is the father of the singer-songwriter Lail Arad .

Prizes and awards

  • 1994 Designer of the Year, Salon du Meuble, Paris
  • 1999 Design Plus Award, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1999 International Design Prize Baden-Württemberg, Design Center Stuttgart
  • 2001 Oribe Art & Design Award, Japan
  • 2001 Gio Ponti International Design Award, Denver
  • 2001 Co-winner of the Perrier Jouët Selfridges Design Prize, London
  • 2001 Barcelona Primavera International Award for Design
  • 2002 finalist of the World Technology Award for Design
  • 2002 Royal Designer for Industry (RDI)
  • 2002 Fellow of the World Technology Network
  • 2004 A&W Designer of the Year 2004, awarded by A&W Architektur & Wohnen magazine
  • 2010 Honorary Doctorate from Tel Aviv University
  • 2012 Member of the Royal Academy of Arts

Exhibitions

literature

  • Deyan Sudjic: Restless Furniture . Fourth Estate, London 1989, ISBN 0-947795-19-7 .
  • Alexander von Vegesack (Ed.): Ron Arad . Vitra-Design-Museum, Weil am Rhein 1990, ISBN 3-9802539-4-5 .
  • Ron Arad Associates - One Off Three . Artemis, London etc. 1993, ISBN 3-7608-8402-4 .
  • Volker Albus: The Bookworm by Ron Arad (=  Design Classics ). Publisher Form Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-931317-12-9 .
  • Raymond Guidot, Olivier Boissiere: Ron Arad . Dis Voir, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-906571-58-X .
  • Deyan Sudjic: Ron Arad . Laurence King Publishers, London 1999, ISBN 1-85669-126-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of honorary doctorates from Tel Aviv University
  2. ^ Royal Academy of Arts: database entry , accessed April 10, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Arad, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British industrial designer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv