Ron Arad : Designers : In Public Spaces : Vitra.com

Ron Arad, born 1951 in Tel Aviv, studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and at the Architectural Association in London. In 1981 he opened the office One Off Ltd. in London together with Caroline Thorman and began to handcraft unconventional furnishings made mostly out of welded steel sheeting with distinctive sculptural forms. He and Thorman founded Ron Arad Associates Ltd. together with Canadian architect Alison Brooks in 1989. Since the late 1980s, Arad has also designed furniture for series production. In 1994 he established the "ron arad studio" in Como, Italy, and taught product design as a guest professor at the Vienna University of Technology until 1997. Since 1997 he has held a professorship for furniture design and industrial design at the Royal College of Art in London.

Exhibitions:
Ron Arad's work is represented in the permanent collections of many museum around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein.
2000 "Not Made by Hand, Not Made in China", Galleria Giò Marconi, Milan
2000 "Before and After Now", Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1996-98 "Ron Arad and Ingo Maurer", Spazio Krizia, Milan
1990-95 "Ron Arad - Sticks & Stones", Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
1987 Documenta 8, Kassel
1984 Zeus Gallery, Milan