Nobody does design blogging better than Grace at Design*Sponge. So it’s quite fitting that she would feature Israeli design legend Ron Arad in her Rocking Chair Roundup posted today - because both are amazing. Design*sponge features a range of guides that are invaluable for the design savvy set. There are city guides - from Brooklyn to LA, Toronto to Dallas, even one for South America! - and product guides - including my personal favorites about dressers and dining chairs. Head over and check out the goods. Warning, they’re almost guaranteed to make you swoon - or at least drool.
If you can’t pick out the Ron Arad Voico chair immediately, it’s the black marshmallow chair on the bottom left that demonstrates Arad’s powerful and influential exploration of volume and material and the simplest of shaped rocking chairs. Although it seems super modern, there’s also something so attractive about it - as if the interest value is beckoning me to just get one for my daughter’s room already. Oh, to dream. Anyone else wanting one of these?
7 responses so far ↓
1 Shira Jacobson // Jan 23, 2008 at 8:44 am
The marshmallow chair is wayy too modern for my taste….I don’t think I understand how one even sits in it….I love the woven one on the bottom right, though.
2 Lily // Jan 23, 2008 at 12:45 pm
And I love the marshmellow chair…it would fit perfectly in my new modern house, with my new modern kitchen…a girl can dream, right?
3 Harry // Jan 23, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I get a backache looking at the marshmallow chair.
Why is it even called a marshmallow chair? It looks hard, not soft.
Actually, it looks like a masquerade mask for a giant.
4 Ziva // Jan 23, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I gotta agree with you, Lil, though I’m dreaming it’s in my house whether it matches or not.
Although Shira has a good point: that handmade and crafier items do add a nice homey touch as opposed to some of the harsher modern design.
And then there’s Harry’s point, which I think goes something like this: wow, Israeli art is really ambitious and creative in its referencing to giants’ needs for eye masks for masquerade balls. That Ron Arad is amazing .Now I shall purchase this for you, my amazing wife…
5 zevan // May 5, 2008 at 2:06 am
I like the designs of Ron Arad
but don’t some of them seem
a bit IKEA like?
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