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[Apartment Therapy New York] A lot of Ron Arad's designs are iconically 90's ”” the furniture version of blobitecture. His designs often test the limits of technology, materials and production resulting in a high price tag.

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[thegraffik | Design and Illustration] Ron Arad: No Discipline | thegraffik | Design and Illustration: Given the high prices his work tends to sell for and the generalvisibility of Arad as a design figurehead, it's tempting to make astraw man of him by observing just how far his indulgent one-offs (alsothe name of his studio) are from the democratization of design. Givenour current economic climate, it's easy for us to look back upon thebombast of Arad's work, apply a price tag, and experience somethingbetween revulsion and regret.

[Core77] Ron Arad: No Discipline - Core77: Given the high prices his work tends to sell for and the general visibility of Arad as a design figurehead, it's tempting to make a straw man of him by observing just how far his indulgent one-offs (also the name of his studio) are from the democratization of design. Given our current economic climate, it's easy for us to look back upon the bombast of Arad's work, apply a price tag, and experience something between revulsion and regret.

[Metropolis POV] Metropolis POV » Ron Arad: Some Sort of Discipline: At MoMA, an enormous Cor-Ten “Cage sans Frontiers” snakes along the sixth floor, displaying three decades of Arad designs (chairs, architectural models, lights, and more) in mirrored cubbies. A pamphlet describes the show as a .

[Adequately Fresh] Ron Arad - No Discipline @ MOMA | Adequately Fresh: Trained at the Jerusalem Academy of Art and at London’s Architectural Association, Arad has produced an outstanding array of innovative objects over the past twenty-five years, from almost unlimited series of objects to carbon fiber armchairs and polyurethane bottle racks. He has also designed memorable spaces, some plastic and tactile, others ethereal and digital.

[Fast Company] Ron Arad at MoMA: Who Needs Discipline? | Yes to Less | Fast Company: The appeal of Arad's work seems to generate, in part, by its contrast to the linear sterility of modernism. The more we grow weary of yet another iteration of "clean" design, the anthropomorphic seduction of Arad's creations provides a new insight as to why High Renaissance architecture ultimately devolved into the Baroque or Mies ultimately succumbed to Memphis.

[CasaSugar] Ron Arad Exhibit Opens at MoMA | architecture, furniture design ...: Arad is well known for his iconoclastic disregard for disciplines ”” and, at least apparently, for discipline. He has defined much of the current panorama of design, inspiring a generation of practitioners who disregard established modes of practice in favor of mutant design careers that are flexible enough to encompass the range of contemporary design applications, from interactions and interfaces to furniture and shoes.

[FreshBump RSS Feed] Ron Arad Has No Discipline - FreshBump: Israeli designer Ron Arad is proving his chops as an installation artist at 'No Discipline', his show at the MoMA. The show runs through October 19th and features some awesome blending of furniture, art and design.

[92Y Blog] Ron Arad: Dialogues with Design Legends - 92Y Blog - 92nd Street Y ...: The designer Ron Arad has always had a lot of nerve, and it ricochets around his rambunctious, ultimately inconclusive retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art like an ammo belt’s worth of stray bullets. Sometimes the bullets hit, turning random targets into bull’s-eyes.

[WIDN blog] WIDN blog: Ron Arad: No Discipline: Blog by the Word Interior Design Network team, covering our adventures in the world of interior design.

[Wheels] A Designer's Journey: From Rover Chair to Maserati Showroom ...: Arad’s 1981 Rover Chair, I saw a set of Mercedes S-class seats (or possibly seats from the original 600) mounted on beautifully designed bases and used as office chairs at what was then Mercedes-Benz of North America (MBNA). This was easily in the early to mid-1970’s.

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