Timothy Taylor Gallery

Among the most respected and influential designers working today, Ron Arad is celebrated for his fluid, curvaceous style, crafting deceptively simple, highly skilled pieces from materials such as aluminium, bronze and steel. Defying easy categorisation, Arad’s work consistently reinvents the everyday object, transforming it into something daring, witty and provocative. Bookshelves wind their way up walls, tables curve up corners, chairs unravel like ribbon, all retaining their essential function while questioning their perceived limitations.

Born in Tel-Aviv in 1951, Arad moved to London in 1973. Completing his training at the Architectural Association in 1979, he established his own design practice ‘One-off’ in 1981, fusing together ready-made and partially ready-made pieces to create works such as the now iconic Rover Chair. A second studio ‘Ron Arad Associates’ opened in Camden in 1989, incorporating One-Off in 1994 and still operates from the same premises today.

Following a critically acclaimed first exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Arad’s solo show No Discipline travels to New York’s MOMA from 2 August until 19 October. A solo show will open at the Barbican Centre in London in February 2010 before No Discipline tours to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam next autumn. Arad’s work features in private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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