
Catalogue
- Year
- 1989
- Medium
- Chair
- Collection
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Artist
- Ron Arad
Artist

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.
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PizzaKobra
2007 · Chromed steel, aluminum, and LEDs
Contribution to V&A's 150th anniversary album
2007 · Album page
Screw
2006 · Aluminum and stainless steel
MT3
2005 · Rotation-molded polyethylene
FPE (Fantastic, Plastic, Elastic)
1997 · Extruded aluminum profiles and injection-molded polypropylene plastic sheet
Soft Little Heavy
1991 · Chair
Source
- Collection
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Source
- vam
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





