Ron Arad
| Ron Arad began is studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Art in 1971. In 1973 he moved to London where he attended the Architectural Association. In 1981 he founded the studio One Off with Caroline Thorman, a way of putting forward not just his own work but that of other avant garde British designers. In 1989 he founded the architecture and design practice Ron Arad Associates together with Aloson Brooks and Caroline Thorman nod in 1994 the Ron Arad Studio in Como, Italy. In 1994 he also began teaching at the Hoschschule in Vienna and at the Royal college of Art in London. Ron Arad's work which is mainly in furniture and product design, is characterised by a virtuoso use of steel sheet which he knowingly shapes into sinuous shapes and lines in an apparent continual movement. Given international recognition for his work (Designer of the Year 1994), which started off a long way before the idea of mass production, he has since attracted the interest of notable manufacturers such as Vitra, Moroso, Kartell and Driade. His objects form part of the permanent collections in various museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London where recently an exhibition of his work entitled "Before and After Now" was held. | |     |