Ron Arad Studio

Ron Arad founded One Off with Caroline Thorman in 1981, added the Ron Arad Associates architecture and design practice in 1989 and Ron Arad Architects in 2008. Born in Tel Aviv in 1951 and trained at the Architectural Association in London, he ran a design studio in Como from 1994 to 1999 and was Professor of Design Product at the Royal College of Art until 2009.

Constant experimentation with steel, aluminium and polyamide, and a radical re-conception of furniture form and structure, placed Arad at the forefront of contemporary design. Alongside limited editions he has designed for Kartell, Vitra, Moroso and Alessi, realised public artworks such as Vortext in Seoul, and built the Design Museum in Holon and the ToHa towers in Tel Aviv. He received the 2011 London Design Week Medal and became a Royal Academician in 2013.