H1 Lolita 2004 Send a text message to Lolita: (917) 774-6264 Cage sans Frontières 2009 Corten steel and stainless steel Manufactured by Marzorati Ronchetti, Italy Fabric donated by The Maharam Company, USA Pattern cut and stitched courtesy Notify, France Fixtures donated by The OKE Group, Germany Private collection 621 6a 7a 8a 9a 5a 10a 4a 11a 3a 12a 2a 13a 1a 14a 6B 7B 8B 9B 5B 10B 4B 11B 3B 12B 2B 13B 1B 14B 5C 6C 7C 8C 9C 10C 11C 12C 2C 3C 13C 1C 14C 1d 2d 3d 4d 6d 7d 8d 10d 11d 12d 13d 14d F2 F1 F3 F4 front of Gallery, Structure Interior F1 Bodyguard n°3 2007 2C Olympic Bridge, London 3B Screw 2006 5A Schizzo 1989 6B Looming Lloyd 1989 7B Spanish Made 1990 8A The Big E 2003 9B New Orleans 1999 11B Little Heavy 1989 12C The Rover Chair 1981 14C Aerial Light 1981 F3 Rolling Volume 1991 Polished and partially colored project, 2007 Aluminum and stainless steel Plywood Lloyd Loom chair, stainless Stainless steel Rotation-molded polyethylene 9C Fiberglass, polyester, Polished stainless steel Tubular steel, leather, and Lacquered steel, cast iron, car Mirror-polished stainless steel superplastic aluminum Selective laser sintering Manufactured by Driade SpA, Italy Manufactured by Vitra GmbH, Germany steel, and patinated steel Edition by One Off/Ron Arad Associates, Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy and gelcoat Edition by One Off/Ron Arad cast-iron Kee Klamp joints aerial, electronic components, Edition by One Off, London Edition by The Gallery Mourmans, in polyamide The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Edition by One Off/Ron Arad Associates, London Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy Edition by Ron Arad for The Gallery Associates, London Edition by One Off, London and halogen bulb Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée Gift of the manufacturer Germany Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, national d’art moderne/Centre de the Netherlands London Mourmans, the Netherlands Private collection, London Edition by One Off, London Private collection, London Germany création industrielle Private collection, USA Private collection, USA Private collection Private collection, USA 8B Soft Big Easy 1990 3C PizzaKobra 2007 5B Empty Chair prototype, 1994 7C Well Tempered Chair 2D Box in Four Movements Polyurethane foam, steel, 12D Moreover 2007 6C Sit! prototype, 1990 prototype, 1986 10D D-Sofa prototype, 1994 11C Big Heavy 1989 14D Rocking Chair 1981 F4 Rolling Volume 1989 1994 Steel, aluminum, and light- Lacquered plywood with paint polypropylene, and wool Chromed steel emitting diodes (LEDs) and handwritten instructions Tempered and patinated steel Sprung stainless steel Patinated, painted, oxidized Patinated mild steel Tubular steel and PVC plastic– Patinated mild steel and Stainless steel Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy Edition by Ron Arad Associates, polished stainless steel Manufactured by iGuzzini Prototype by Ron Arad and Driade Prototype by Ron Arad/One Off, London and wing nuts Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy stainless steel and mild steel Edition by One Off, London, and The London covered galvanized springs Gallery Mourmans, the Netherlands Edition by Ron Arad Associates, London illuminazione SpA, Italy SpA, Italy Private collection, Paris Prototype by One Off, London Private collection, London Edition by One Off, London Prototype by Vitra GmbH, Germany Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Edition by One Off, London Collection of Reed and Delphine Krakoff The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Private collection, London Pizzuti Collection Private collection, Germany Collection of Aby J. Rosen Germany M.J.S. Collection, Paris Gift of the manufacturer 8C Big Easy Volume 2 1988 6230 6D Narrow Papardelle 1992 13C Tinker Chair 1988 3D Box in Four Movements 5C Tel Aviv Performing Arts Polished stainless steel H1 Lolita 2004 Woven stainless steel mesh 7D Bad Tempered Chair 2002 10C Little Albert 2002 11D Moreover 2007 Painted and patinated F2 Ballpark prototype, 2001 1994 4B Empty Chair 1994 Center 1988–94 Edition by One Off, London Crystals and light-emitting and steel Carbon, Kevlar, and glass Collection of Michael G. Jesselson, hammered steel Silicone, steel, and rubber Ash plywood and stainless steel Rotation-molded polyethylene Patinated rusted steel diodes (LEDs) Polished and patinated bronze Patinated steel Edition by One Off/Ron Arad Associates, fibers with wing nuts New York Manufactured by Moroso SpA, Italy Edition by Ron Arad Associates, Edition by One Off, London Prototype by Ron Arad Associates, Edition by Ron Arad Associates, London Manufactured by Driade SpA, Italy London Edition by Swarovski, Austria Private collection, London Manufactured by Vitra GmbH, Germany Courtesy Moroso SpA, Udine, Italy London Courtesy Jerome L. and Ellen Stern London M.J.S. Collection, Paris Courtesy Driade The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gift Courtesy Swarovski Crystal Palace, Courtesy Vitra Private collection, London Private collection, London of the Sealy Family Trust, by exchange 8D Big Easy Volume 2 1989 London Design Museum Holon, Stainless steel and antirust 13D The Rover Chair 1981 Send a text message to Lolita: 4D Wild Crow 1988 Israel 2004–08 paint Tubular steel, leather, and (917) 774-6264 Stainless and patinated steel 629 Perspex and timber Edition by One Off/Ron Arad Associates, cast-iron Kee Klamp joints Edition by One Off, London London Private collection, London Edition by One Off, London Jean and Annie Galvani, private Private collection, USA collection, France The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Architecture & Design Purchase Fund Restless Furniture tempered steel can provide. The chairs, including steel provides some bounce to the seat. “Well direction of her family’s furniture business, and seats from a Rover V8 2L car. He bought two in of small rubber balls, each with a slice cut out pressed for a name, Arad thought of another 4D, 6B, 7B Sit!, Bucking Bronco, and Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, tempered” suggests an amiability that contrasts inspired her to produce the upholstered Soft red, dismantled them, then anchored the seats of it that has been replaced with a mirror. Each work in progress, his LED-riddled Lo-Rez-Dolores- were made during a workshop Arad conducted with the chair’s rather threatening appearance. Big Easy. Almost fifteen years later, in 2003, in tubular-steel frames using Kee Klamps, an ball, oriented to catch the light, reflects a single Tabula-Rasa, and from there went to Lolita—the Wild Crow is the first and most distinctive of at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Arad has described the Well Tempered Chair as Moroso put The Big E into production. Made inexpensive scaffolding system invented in the pixel, and together they can spell out words nickname of Vladimir Nabokov’s Dolores Haze Arad’s series that critic Deyan Sudjic has dubbed Germany, in 1990. He had asked to be provided “all skin—no bones, fat, or muscle.” In Bad Tempered from rotation-molded polyethylene, it is suitable 1930s for cow-milking stalls. Arad sold the first or create images. Because there are so many and the subject of the first line of the eponymous Ron Arad stands out among the most influential “restless furniture.” Perched on a heavy and with tempered steel, but it was available only Chair, this skin is not steel but a composite of glass, for both indoor and outdoor use. two Rover Chairs to fashion designer Jean Paul possible angles of reflection and each ball can be novel: “Lolita, light of my life . .” designers of our time for his daredevil approach unstable base with its beak thrust toward the in strips about twelve inches wide. Arad made carbon, and Kevlar fibers embedded in synthetic Gaultier, who happened to see them in the window independently manipulated, the reflected to form, structure, technology, and materials sky, this surprising and somewhat menacing The New Orleans chairs of 1999 are eighteen Send a text message to Lolita: (917) 774-6264 a virtue out of necessity—creating a new resin, retaining the simple form of the original in of One Off, and they soon became hugely popular. text can be different from—even the opposite in work that spans the disciplines of industrial chaise longue rewards its daring user with a colorful armchairs made in the same shape as typology of chairs. a chair that is incredibly light. Arad stopped producing Rover Chairs once the of—what is shown on the tray. 629 design, sculpture, architecture, and mixed- soothing rocking motion. Another member Big Easy. Arad painted the chairs by applying 624 supply of usable seats was exhausted. Although medium installation. Arad was born in Tel Aviv of the restless family is Looming Lloyd, whose 627 pigmented polyester gelcoat in layers inside the he was aware at the time of the many artistic in 1951, and since 1973 he has been based in weighted clogs can be clamped onto any four- mold before pouring in the polyester, thus making experiments with found objects, his intention, he Lolita London, where he studied at the Architectural legged chair—transforming it into a tilting, Big Easys the decorative element inherent to the chair’s Tempered Chairs construction. He favored bright primary colors insists, was not to participate in this legacy nor H1 Association and in 1981 founded the gallery- tumbling wonder. Spanish Made, so named 8A—D, 9B+C, 10D 7C, 7D to recycle, but simply to make something easy studio One Off. He runs Ron Arad Associates with because it was designed at a workshop in Spain, in abstract drips and bursts, with the occasional When Nadja Swarovski set out to build the Arad’s work with tempered steel, particularly his written message: “Absolutely not for sale,” and, above all, different. The Moreover chairs, longtime business partner Caroline Thorman.