Vintage view: A celebration of Israeli born Ron Arad
Design is is such a transient and derivative showcase, that it’s sometimes hard to mark out the original creative from the mediocre, muddy-footed plagiarist.
Not so industrial designer Ron Arad (b1951) — a self-described ‘brat’ who works with a fluid, childlike energy, his work as curated to galleries, written up as architecture or distilled down through designs for top-end furniture brands, is certain to be remembered 100 years from now.
