Charles Jencks

Bruce Weber

Tom Dixon

Barbara Kruger

Leigh Bowery

Jenny Holzer

Ron Arad

Andrea Branzi

Gilbert & George.

Daniel Weil

Boris Sipek

Tommaso Grattoni

King Kong

Shiro Kuramata

Massimo Iosa Ghini

Denis Santachiara

Fashion And The Underground In The 80S

Excess

Deyan Sudjic

Describes the work of the furniture designer, and discusses the development of design and his place in it.

Restless Furniture

Paola Antonelli

Jonathan Safran Foer

Marie-Laure Jousset

Ingeborg de Roode

Even among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad stands out for the versatile nature of his work and his daredevil use of materials and technology. Idiosyncratic, suprising and always visually arreasting, Arads work communicates joy in creation, pleasure in invention, and pride in technical and constructive qualities. He has deftly avoided a recognizable style for over twenty years; his style is rather a matter of character, reflective of his disregard for established disciplines. Through his own work and his decade long tenure as the Head of Design Projects graduate programme at the Royal College of Art in London, Arad has greatly influenced the current debate on designs relationship with art, technology and innovation, and nurtured some of the most promising young designers in todays international scene. Published to accompany the first major retrospective of Arads work in the US, the catalogue features an interview with the artist and essays on his use of innovative materials and technology, his role as an educator and communicator on the importance of design, and his place in the larger design and art market. A lavishly illustrated plate section provides visual and written documentation of approximately eighty works.

No Discipline

Matthew Collings

This book gives readers an insight into the work of one of the world's most successful contemporary designers, Ron Arad. In a long conversation with art critic Matthew Collings, Arad talks about how his career has unfolded and the elements it now encompasses: product and furniture design, architecture, public sculpture and exhibitions. As well as revealing both the thinking and stories behind many of Arad's designs and projects, this discussion also touches on whether art and design can really mix, the nature of the client-designer relationship, how workshop projects feed designs for mass-production, the fun of working both with simple materials and cutting-edge technology, what makes good architecture, and refusing to decide whether you're a designer or an architect. Illustrated with over 350 images of his work (including specially commissioned pictures by Tom Vack) Ron Arad talks with Matthew Collings is the most complete overview of Arad's career to date.

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