Opinionated and playful，this book gives readers an unprecedented insight into the work of one of the world’s most successful contemporary designers，Ron Arad. In a long conversation with art critic Matthew Collings，Arad talks candidly about how his career has unfolded and the elements it now encompasses: product and furniture design，architecture，public sculpture and exhibitions.

Opinionated and playful，this book gives readers an unprecedented insight into the work of one of the world’s most successful contemporary designers，Ron Arad. In a long conversation with art critic Matthew Collings，Arad talks candidly about how his career has unfolded and the elements it now encompasses: product and furniture design，architecture，public sculpture and exhibitions.As well as revealing both the thinking and stories behind many of Arad’s designs and projects，this discussion also touches on whether art and design can really mix，the nature of the diem-designer relationship，how workshop.projects feed designs for mass-production，the fun of working both with simple materials and cutting-edge technology，what makes good architecture，and refusing to decide whether you’re a designer or an architect.Illustrated with over 35o images of his work (including specially commissioned pictures by Tom Vack) Ron Arad talks with Matthew Collings is the most complete-and most entertaining- overview of Arad’s career to date.

1

Difference between art

and design

Yes to minimal

Different minimal

Documenta punch-up

2

Art，rock，privilege

Architects who don’t build )

Stufffrom the 70s

Short stint fn Hampstead

3

Rover chair，Covent Garden

DIY，scaffolding，surviving

Public’s unexpected lust

for design

Parties

Publicity，VAT，the Home Office

More stuffin boom climate

4

Readymades peaking

and waning

Shopping

Being a ruinist

Not macho

5

Doors strangely closed

Bricks，Neo-Geo，lights going on

and off

Being serious

6

Interesting views on chairs

Crude to refined

More angles on chairs

Welding，polishing

and the decorative

More decorative

7

Chairs get industrial treatment

Playful

Early chairs

Vases，sculptures，computers

8

What makes architects tick?

Tel Aviv Opera House,

Big Blue and Belgo

9

The Qatar floor project

Yamamoto

Car park building

Aesthetics，ideas

things changing

Battersea Power Station

New stufffor Qatar

What’s best?

10

Why curve?

11

Bibliography

Timelines

Credits

Index