Research Catalog

Title

Ron Arad talks to Matthew Collings.

Author

Collings, Matthew.

Publication

London ; New York : Phaidon, 2004.

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Details

Description

247 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"Opinionated and playful, this book gives readers an unprecedented insight into the work of one of the world's most successful contemporary designers, Ron Arad. In a long conversation with art critic Matthew Collings, Arad talks candidly about how his career has unfolded and the elements it now encompasses: product and furniture design, architecture, public sculpture and exhibitions. As well as revealing both the thinking and stories behind many of Arad's designs and projects, this discussion also touches on whether art and design can really mix, the nature of the client-designer relationship, how workshop projects feed designs for mass-production, the fun of working both with simple materials and cutting-edge technology, what makes good architecture, and refusing to decide whether you're a designer or an architect. Illustrated with over 350 images of his work (including specially commissioned picture by Tom Vack), [this book] is the most complete, and most entertaining, overview of Arad's career to date"--Bookjacket.

Subject

• Arad, Ron, 1951- > Interviews
• Arad, Ron, 1951-
• Furniture designers > Great Britain > Interviews
• Industrial designers > Great Britain > Interviews
• Industrial design
• Design
• industrial design
• design (discipline)
• Design
• Furniture designers
• Industrial design
• Industrial designers
• Designers > Israel > Interviews
• Furniture designers > Israel > Interviews
• Designer
• Mobilier
• Design industriel
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• interviews.
• Interviews
• Interviews.
• Interview (Descripteur de forme)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 238) and index.

Contents

Part 1: -- Difference between art and design -- Yes to minimal -- Different minimal -- Documenta punch-up -- Part 2: -- Art, rock, privilege -- Architects who don't build -- Stuff from the 70s -- Short stint in Hampstead -- Part 3: -- Rover chair, Covent Garden -- DIY, scaffolding, surviving -- Public's unexpected lust for design -- Parties -- Publicity, VAT, the home office -- More stuff in boom climate -- Part 4: -- Readymades peaking and waning -- Shopping -- Being a ruinist -- Not macho -- Part 5: -- Doors strangely closed -- Bricks, Neo-Geo, lights going on and off -- Being serious -- Part 6: -- Interesting views on chairs -- Crude to refined -- More angles on chairs -- Welding, polishing and the decorative -- More decorative -- Part 7: -- Chairs get industrial treatment -- Playful -- Early chairs -- Vases, sculptures, computers -- Part 8: -- What makes architects tick? -- Tel Aviv Opera House, big blue and belgo -- Part 9: -- The Qatar floor project -- Yamamoto -- Car park building -- Aesthetics, ideas, things changing -- Battersea Power Station -- New stuff for Qatar -- What's best? -- Part 10: -- Why curve? -- Part 11: -- Bibliography -- Timelines -- Credits -- Index.

ISBN

• 0714843105
• 9780714843100

OCLC

• ocm52738088
• 52738088
• SCSB-1336647

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library