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Ron Arad
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description
- Ron Arad
- 'All Light Long' Table, from the 'Paperwork' Collection
- engraved with facsimile signature Ron Arad and numbered 11/20
from an edition of 20 + 5 AP - carbon fibre, Nomex honeycomb paper
- 75.7 x 330 x 94.5 cm (29 7/8 x 129 7/8 x 37 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Friedman Benda, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Marielle Dagault, Marie-Laure Jousset, eds, Ron Arad: No Discipline, exh. cat., Paris, 2008, p. 121
Catalogue Note
Israeli-born Ron Arad was born in 1951 and graduated from the Architectural Association in London in 1979. He proceeded to set up his own architecture and industrial design studio, forging himself an unparalleled creative identity and a notorious challenging attitude towards art, design and architecture. Refusing to be fully assimilated with either one of the disciplines, he stated: `I do not need a passport to go from one to the other`. His `No discipline` exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris was held in 2009 and exemplifies the full panoply of his oeuvre ranging from crude re-appropriated to digitally manufactured elements.
In the ‘All Light Long’ design, Arad combines the use of Nomex honeycomb paper with layers of resin coated carbon fibre to create a table that is both light and strong in equal measure – easily lifted by two people yet able to support the weight of a car.