Ron Arad: Yes to the Uncommon! @ The Vitra Design Museum Schaudepot, Weil am Rhein
In his Ron Arad monograph Restless Furniture Deyan Sudjic notes that the Sticks & Stones furniture crusher Arad developed for the exhibition Nouvelles Tendances staged by the Centre de Creation Industriel Paris in 1987 was itself only saved from the crusher through the post-exhibition “intervention of a friendly Swiss furniture manufacturer.”1
While all Swiss furniture manufacturers are friendly, one particularly friendly Swiss furniture manufacturer springs to mind whenever the discussion turns to furniture design as being more than the shape of a chair, furniture design as a cultural imperative or the preservation of furniture design heritage.
As if confirmation were needed, the Sticks & Stones crusher greets visitors to the Vitra Design Museum Schaudepot exhibition Ron Arad: Yes to the Uncommon!
Tom Vac by Ron Arad for Vitra. And New Objectivity!
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Everyday Design: Tom Vac by Ron Arad for Vitra
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For people who spend most of their working lives sat at desks, publishers and authors have a frightening disregard for
Design Museum Holon
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(smow)blog and usm_highboard_m_rubinrot … soon at DOK Leipzig?
(click to play) As a few you have noticed (and thanks for the mails by the way, always appreciated) we’ve
Ron Arad: No Discipline
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CeBIT 2009: A furnsihers perspective
Last week the (smow)team made their annual pilgrimage to the CeBIT communications and IT trade fair in Hannover – not
Springtime in Paris: Ron Arad and Jasper Morrison exhibitions
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DOK Leipzig 2008: A review
It may be a few months old, but as relevant as ever: The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated