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Ron AradWW-1981-M090029
1981·Painted tubular steel and leather·.1: 31 1/2 x 24 x 36" (80 x 61 x 91.4 cm)

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Year
1981
Dimensions
.1: 31 1/2 x 24 x 36" (80 x 61 x 91.4 cm)
Artist
Ron Arad

Artist

Ron Arad
Ron Arad

Ron Arad is a British designer and sculptor who transforms industrial materials, particularly salvaged steel and aluminum, into functional and sculptural objects that challenge conventional distinctions between furniture, architecture, and art. Working since the 1980s, his practice combines engineering precision with an intuitive formal sensibility, producing cantilever chairs, curved walls, and monumental installations that exploit material properties and structural logic. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Arad's pieces operate simultaneously as design objects and conceptual investigations into making, materiality, and spatial experience.

London, UK

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Contribution to V&A's 150th anniversary album

2007 · Album page

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PizzaKobra

PizzaKobra

2007 · Chromed steel, aluminum, and LEDs

WW-2007-M086480
Screw

Screw

2006 · Aluminum and stainless steel

WW-2006-M084311
MT3

MT3

2005 · Rotation-molded polyethylene

WW-2005-M084312
FPE (Fantastic, Plastic, Elastic)

FPE (Fantastic, Plastic, Elastic)

1997 · Extruded aluminum profiles and injection-molded polypropylene plastic sheet

WW-1997-M003158
Soft Little Heavy

Soft Little Heavy

1991 · Chair

WW-1991-299332

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Artist
Ron Arad
Year
1981
Dimensions
.1: 31 1/2 x 24 x 36" (80 x 61 x 91.4 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1981-M090029

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moma
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verified