Ron Arad

Design / 25 Jun 2018

Ron Arad goes head to head with emerging designer in New York

Throughout its lifetime, the New York gallery Friedman Benda has made supporting both established and emerging design-focused artists its calling card. Its latest duo of exhibitions is no different. Opening this week, the gallery dedicates its ground floor space to...

Architecture / 3 Jun 2018

Reporting from the building site at Ron Arad’s clever ToHA towers in Tel Aviv

Flexibility and imaginative engineering meet at the building site for ToHA – a.k.a Totseret Ha-Aretz – in Tel Aviv. The new development, designed by Ron Arad, has been rising fast in the Israeli town, gearing up to make...

Architecture / 19 Feb 2018

Letter from Tel Aviv: the architecture reaching new heights in Israel’s cultural capital

Known as Israel’s cultural capital, Tel Aviv has an architectural identity that is a tale of two cities. The sun-drenched secular metropolis is loved internationally for its bohemian Bauhaus treasures, with some 4,000 historic buildings scattered across the broad...

Design / 12 Oct 2017

Ron Arad reveals the pivotal works that are set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s auction ‘Living in a Material World’ opens next week, showcasing the evolution of design with a collection curated by Tony Chambers. Ron Arad features in the show, and is offering up a whole seven lots. In this video, the...

Design / 9 Oct 2017

‘Living in a Material World’ auction at Sotheby’s: the Wallpaper* edit

Ahead of the pre-sale exhibition (13-16 October) of Sotheby’s auction ‘Design: Living in a Material World’ (17 October), its curator and Wallpaper* brand and content director Tony Chambers picks his top 30 lots. From Ron Arad’s innovative ‘Blo-Void 1’ chair...

Design / 26 Sep 2017

Piece corps: Wallpaper* and Sotheby’s join forces to reveal what great design is made of

‘Living in a Material World.’ It’s a brave title for an auction, perhaps. Yet for Sotheby’s design auction on 17 October, curated by our own brand and content director Tony Chambers, the title has a very literal intent: the...

Design / 10 Jul 2017

Sonic bloom: Design Museum Holon is making noise about audio design

‘Here in Israel, we tend to blame the younger generation for choosing to go to a restaurant or concert over a museum,’ says Maya Dvash, chief curator at Design Museum Holon. ‘But they do this because of the need...

Design / 12 Jun 2017

Hot desk: Thom Browne pulls up a seat to Design Miami/ Basel

June sees the return of Design Miami/ for its Basel edition, and along with it the fair’s Design at Large programme, which presents contemporary design in a new conceptual light. For its fourth iteration, the showcase is curated by Thom...

Design / 12 Apr 2017

Material world: Sotheby’s announces autumn design auction

Over the past few seasons, Sotheby’s has garnered much publicity and financial success with a series of art sales curated by public figures. Creatives who have lent their discerning eye include fashion designers Erdem Moralıoğlu and Anya Hindmarch, comedian Jill...

Lifestyle / 28 Mar 2017

Keep rollin’: Martin Parr, Ron Arad and Paul Smith talk bikes for Brooks’ 150th birthday

Brooks England is a cycling institution. For 150 years, its storied leather saddles have bumped bums with the best of them, earning cult status. Now, to celebrate Brooks’ 150th birthday, designer Ron Arad, fashion’s Sir Paul Smith and photographer Martin...

Art / 13 Mar 2017

Artists think inside the box for a charitable selling exhibition

The brief, unusually, was to think not outside but in, on or around the box. And, in the summer of 2016, some 53 internationally renowned artists took up the challenge. The result is Cure3, a selling exhibition of bespoke Perspex...

Design / 11 Nov 2016

Gio Ponti, Studio Job and Ron Arad designs up for grabs at Sotheby’s

With the Design Museum on the verge of opening its sparkling new West London doors, there’s an autumn design buzz in London at the moment. Coinciding with this is another celebration of international design in the capital, Sotheby’s ‘Design’ –...

Arad’s work spans large-scale buildings and iconic product design. Recent accolades include becoming a Royal Academician in 2013