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.

Arad’s Curtain Call, a suspended curtain of over 5000 silicon rods acting as a canvas for live performance, film and animation recently enjoyed an immensely popular three weeks at the Roundhouse in London’s Camden, while the critically acclaimed No Discipline tour opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2008 and travelled to New York’s MOMA in August 2010. A third outing is planned for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2012. A separate survey, Restless opened at the Barbican Centre in London in February 2010.

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. Recent architectural projects include The Design Museum, Holon, Israel and the Mediacite in Liege, Belgium.

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