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ID: 500093363
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500093363
 
Record Type: Person
Arad, Ron (Israeli designer and architect, born 1951, active in Britain)

Note: After studying architecture in London, Arad opened the 'One Off' design company and gallery in 1981 and it became a leading alternative design center in that city. Arad made his name with the Rover Chair in which old Rover car seats were remade into chairs. Other noteworthy designs include the polished steel Well-Tempered Chair and the aluminum Horns Chair (1986-1987).

Names:
Arad, Ron (preferred,V,index,English-P,NA,U)
Arad, Ron (Dutch-P,NA)
Ron Arad (V,display)
ארד, רון (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
Israeli (preferred)
British (modern)
English

Roles:
artist (preferred)
designer
furniture designer
architect
interior designer
lecturer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Tel Aviv-Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
child of ....  Arad, Grisha  
..............  (Israeli sculptor and photographer, born 1917) [500482025]
related to ....  Hidden  
..................  (Dutch furniture design firm, contemporary) [500273815]
related to ....  Ron Arad Associates  
..................  (British architectural firm, contemporary) [500229424]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Arad, Ron (I)

Biographies:
(Israeli designer and architect, born 1951, active in Britain) ..... [Grove Art Preferred]
(British architect, London) ..... [AVERY]
(British architect, born 1951) ..... [AVERY]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(British artist, born Israel 1951) ..... [MoMA]
(Israeli designer, born 1951) ..... [IMJ]
(Israeli furniture designer, 1951-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
ארד, רון ........ [IMJ]
................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Arad, Ron ........ [AVERY Preferred, GRISC Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
....................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
....................  Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 35
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 203369
Ron Arad ........ [GRISC, Grove Art, MoMA, VP]
..................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, Gallery Systems, GRISC, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals [online] (1993-) accessed 26 August 2003
....................  Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 35
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n91049551
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n91049551
....................  Progressive Architecture 66/2 (1985)
....................  Progressive architecture, 1985 Feb., v.66, no.2 87
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 203369
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) ID: 96365202
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) ID: Q728087; Q728087
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 35
.......... Progressive architecture, 1985 Feb., v.66, no.2 87
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