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[Uploads from Trish Mayo] Inside Ron Arad's Cage sans Frontieres on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: MoMA had member's only viewing today - I went for the Monet and discovered Ron Arad.

[Art Blart] Exhibition: 'Ron Arad: No Discipline' at The Museum of Modern Art ...: Ever since he founded his studio, together with long-time business partner Caroline Thorman, in 1981 (first called One Off, and then reestablished in 1989 as Ron Arad Associates), Arad has produced an outstanding array of innovative objects, from limited editions to unlimited series, from carbon fiber armchairs to polyurethane bottle racks. A designer and an architect, trained at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and at London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture, he has also designed memorable spaces –

[Uploads from Trish Mayo] Ron Arad No Discipline on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: The pieces themselves are all interesting in the way that they combine forms, material and structure but the "Cage sans Frontieres" the large structure that displays the objects is breath taking (also designed by Arad).

[blog] Ron Arad exhibition at the MoMA: No Discipline : blog: Here Arad's rambunctious, often hugely influential designs and objects--his Restless Chairs and Readymades, his Wavys and Infinities, his Voids and Misfits--have been integrated into and displayed on and around the swirling, swooping Cage Sans Frontieres, which the artist created especially for the MoMA exhibit. The result is a sort of mischievous, free-spirited harmony, celebrating Ron Arad's career as an industrial designer, an avowed maverick, a design-artist, a visionary, an architect, and any and all other labels that have been applied to Ron Arad and his work over the course of the last thirty-odd years. 

[Core77] Ron Arad: No Discipline - Core77: The objects are clustered together as typographies, so in the rare instances that a limited edition led to a mass produced series, such as the popular but dubiously functional "Bookworm" bookshelf, the exhibit affords rare access to the enormous undulating sculptures that inspired it. Likewise entire evolutions may be followed, from the bent cold steel rolls of his "Tempered Chairs" to the curvy bulk of his "Big Easy" armchairs which were finally mass produced by Moroso years after the introduction of the Tempered Chairs.

[Dailytonic] 'No Discipline' - Ron Arad at MoMA @ Dailytonic: The exhibition culminates in Arad’s structure ‘Cage sans Frontières’, a giant twisted shelf that cradles all the other works.

[otto] MoMA Presents Ron Arad: No Discipline - otto: Displayed in and around a Corten-and-stainless-steel structure called Cage sans Frontières (Cage without Borders), the exhibit spans over Arad's past three decades of idiosyncratic work. no-discipline6.

[artnet Magazine] Ron Arad at the MoMA - artnet Magazine: The high-sheen furniture of Israeli-born, London-based designer Ron Arad, 58, has long been de rigueur for deep-pocketed design collectors, with some forking over $1 million for a single chair. But now with the Museum of Modern Art debuting the first major retrospective devoted to his career, Arad’s prices, along with his stature, seem ready to climb to even more stratospheric heights.

[Apartment Therapy New York] Ron Arad: No Discipline The Museum of Modern Art | Apartment ...: To display the work for the show, Arad himself created a huge stainless steel structure, named the Cage Sans Frontières (Cage Without Borders). The Cage takes up the entire gallery space and holds most of the pieces in the show, like Box in Four Movements, his iconic Ripple Chairs, and Bouncing Vases.

[San Francisco Sentinel] San Francisco Sentinel » Blog Archives » SECRET ISRAELI REPORT ...: Bernd Schmidbauer, at the time a senior official in the Chancellery, negotiated with Iranian Ambassador Hossein Mousavian, who gave the impression he could secure Arad’s release. However talks broke down in 1995 when it became clear a German court would be handing down a life sentence to an Iranian intelligence agent accused of involvement in the assassination of three exiled Iranian politicians in the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin three years earlier.

[Wheels] A Designer's Journey: From Rover Chair to Maserati Showroom ...: Arad, who was born in Israel in 1951, was just beginning his design career when he clamped seats from old 2-liter V-8 Rover to metal frames with what the museum’s curators say were Kee Klamps, “an inexpensive scaffolding system invented in the 1930s for cow-milking stalls.”

[Raw art Weblog] Ron Arad “No Discipline” Exhibition « Raw art Weblog: Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection is an intimate installation that highlights a group of nine exceptional early modern European paintings that have been promised over the years to The Museum of Modern Art by David and Peggy Rockefeller. Mr.

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