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...The first floor has a solo show by the artist-designer Ron Arad (£49,000-£210,000) while its basement has haunting works by Swiss painter Andy Denzler (£13,500-£130,000)....
...It is clearly intolerable to have a terrorist group on your borders,” says Arad. “You simply have to do away with their offensive capabilities and intentions.”...
...Established designers like Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid and Margaret Howell were joined by a dynamic new generation that came to the city to study and stayed to open studios....
...Since then, Arad has created many sculptural takes on the bookshelf....
...earlier parts of his austerity trilogy (Beyond Caring, about zero-hours contracts, and Love, about homelessness), Zeldin invites you into the world of one small group of people living within this threadbare system...
...Of course, it is possible to register designs at the IP office now, but McKelvey says it is an unwieldy system: “Having a more seamless system run by SBID will make our job 10 times easier.”...
...There were stainless steel industrial kitchens, industrial racking systems, steel spiral stairs and rolling site toolboxes repurposed as cutlery cupboards. As a style, it never went away....
...The digital revolution has wiped out whole categories of our possessions, from music systems to vinyl records....
...At the Royal College of Art in London, under the influence of Ron Arad, systems and barriers were demolished.” For him, as for so many, “The digital opens doors to new forms and new possibilities.”...
...Sales have been good and include Keith Tyson’s “Siren” (sold for about £45,000) and Alastair Mackie’s “Complex System 400 A” (£18,000)....
...His standout project as a student of Ron Arad at the RCA was the marathon task of coming up with a new chair every day for 100 days, mostly on the basis of recycling or adapting objects that he found in...
...The last one was Ron Arad in 2000, whose catwalk of chairs and other pieces was more like an installation, snaking through a central corridor space....
...It’s hard, amid the welter of construction noise and the relentless testing of the emergency public address system, to conjure up the tonal character that will compose the memorial’s tragic euphony: the...
...Something Old i RTW unit Ron Arad Working in his medium of choice – metal, and in this case aluminium – Israeli industrial designer, artist and architect Ron Arad designed this open storage unit around...
...The question, though, has to be: is hyper-expensive sculpture for the global super-rich the right medium with which to criticise the system?...
...Arad, Crasset, Alessi Big-name designers are out in force this week. First up is Ron Arad, the focus of a retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in Paris....
...I’m also intrigued by industrial systems and how things work. I like to take existing elements and play around with what has already been created....
...Each was a one-off (indeed, One-Off was the name of Arad’s first company) and a pure reflection of the designer’s vision – no longer restrained by the hindrances of the manufacturing system or its commercial...
...Both Arad and Marc Newson have used car manufacturers to fabricate furniture; for example, Arad’s Boop range, made of super-formed aluminium....
...The strength of the contemporary market has led to new interest in living designers such as The Campana Brothers and Ron Arad....
...His book documents an “ego-system” of the top ten furniture designers whose signature style allows them to be marketed as brands....
...Dado is a system of storage units, comprising drawers of various dimensions contained within a box....
...In fact, Kartell is now known for commissioning outsiders, such as Ron Arad and Ferruccio Laviani, to create new pieces....
...Matteo Ragni’s Una employs baskets to create a flexible bookcase-cum-storage-system. The range will be launched at this month’s Salone del Mobile and be on sale from September....
...He introduced a system of flexible units run by an impressive list of tutors and visiting lecturers, each with their own interests....
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