Art Market Monitor

Global Coverage ~ Unique Analysis

  • AMMpro
  • AMM Fantasy Collecting Game
  • Podcast
  • Contact Us

Arad's Creative Piracy Solution

January 13, 2010 by Marion Maneker

On the occasion of Ron Arad’s first architectural project going up in Israel, the Independent looks at his career and contributions to British design. Arad’s prototypes have been one of the few reliable items in the Design art sales in recent years. So it’s nice to see that he comes up with creative solutions to all sorts of design problems, even ones like piracy.

After college, he opened up a studio/gallery in Covent Garden, back then an edgy and recently revived part of London, and gained a certain celebrity for making radical one-off pieces from discarded objects, like Rover seats and wire shelving. Yet he’s become one of Britain’s most commercially successful furniture designers. Today, it’s hard to travel anywhere on the beaten track without coming across at least one restaurant, gallery or office filled with his Tom Vac chairs, a piece he originally designed in 1997 as a component of a towering sculpture to be shown at the Milan Furniture Fair. (Though the real ones are made by smart Swiss manufacturer Vitra, the design has been so liberally faked in China that Arad travelled to a couple of the factories to see if he couldn’t come up with a new design that they could really own).

Ron Arad: Curve Your Enthusiasm (Independent)

More from Art Market Monitor

  • Emily Ratajkowski Shows Off Her Richard Prince—or Is That Just a DIY New Portrait?Emily Ratajkowski Shows Off Her Richard Prince—or Is That Just a DIY New Portrait?
  • Mei-Moses Mid-Year ReportMei-Moses Mid-Year Report
  • Nieuw GirlNieuw Girl
  • A Few of My Favorite Art Fair Comments – NOT!A Few of My Favorite Art Fair Comments – NOT!
  • Christie’s Unveils £12m Constable for June SaleChristie’s Unveils £12m Constable for June Sale
  • Big-Spending Business Owners Drive Contemporary Art MarketBig-Spending Business Owners Drive Contemporary Art Market

Filed Under: Design

About Marion Maneker

Want to get Art Market Monitor‘s posts sent to you in our email? Sign up below by clicking on the Subscribe button.

Top Posts

  • After Pandemic’s Rapid Change, Sotheby’s Has 8 Predictions for 2021
  • For 2020, Phillips Brought in Total of $760.4 million, Down 16 Percent from 2019; Asia Sales Up 24 Percent
  • Keith Haring’s 1989 Retrospect Comes to Sotheby’s London Prints Sale
  • A Season of Resilience: Fall 2020 Hong Kong Auction Analysis
  • Tony Podesta's Secret Art Buying
  • Soulages First Owned by Senegalese Poet-Politician Léopold Sédar Senghor Sells in France
  • A Season of Improvisation: Fall 2020 New York Modern and Contemporary Art Auction Analysis
  • Four of Picasso's Women Valued at $28m Come to Christie's from Rose-Walters Collection
  • Christie's Announces $70m Picasso Self Portrait
  • Norman Rockwell's Not Gay. But Is He a Great Artist?
  • About Us/ Contact
  • Podcast
  • AMMpro
  • Newsletter
  • FAQ

twitterfacebooksoundcloud
Privacy Policy
Terms & Conditions
California Privacy Rights
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
Advertise on Art Market Monitor