MOROSO MISFITS SOFA DESIGN BY RON ARAD
MOROSO MISFITS SOFA DESIGN BY RON ARAD
Misfits is a modular seating system with many modules, all
different, whose shapes appear to mould the material almost as if they were
sculptures, a play on volumes, solids and empty spaces, fluid and flexuous
lines, sinuous curves that hint at undulating movements and provide the maximum
comfort.
Free-standing and in foam, Misfits is structured in five
large modules, three with a back and two poufs, which can be combined in
endless solutions that can also live on their own.
A play on elements with pliable volumes for a sculptural yet
highly comfortable seating range. The modules are in injected flame-retardant
foam over internal steel frame. Feet, screwed to the frame, in black
polypropylene. The collection is produced, due to the special nature of the shapes,
inwool only. The Misfits collection covers are not removable.
RON ARAD
Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, educated at the Jerusalem Academy
of Art and later at the Architectural Association in London, Ron Arad
co-founded with Caroline Thorman the design and production studio One Off in
1981 and later, in 1989, Ron Arad Associates architecture and design practice.
In 2008 Ron Arad Architects was established alongside Ron Arad Associates.
From 1994 to 1999 he established the Ron Arad Studio, design
and production unit in Como, Italy. He was Professor of Design Product at the
Royal College of Art in London up until 2009. Ron Arad was awarded the 2011
London Design Week Medal for design excellence and was became a Royal
Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2013.
Ron Arad’s constant experimentation with the possibilities
of materials such as steel, aluminium or polyamide and his radical
re-conception of the form and structure of furniture has put him at the
forefront of contemporary design and architecture.
Alongside his limited edition studio work, Arad designs for
many leading international companies including Kartell, Vitra, Moroso, Fiam,
Driade, Alessi, Cappellini, Cassina, WMF and Magis among many others.
Ron Arad has designed a number of Public Art pieces, most
recently the Vortext in Seoul, Korea, and the Kesher Sculpture at Tel Aviv
University.
EXHIBITIONS:
Ron Arad's work is represented in the permanent
collections of many museum around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Victoria & Albert
Museum, London; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein.
2013 – In
Reverse at Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
2013 – In
Reverse at Design Museum Holon Israel
2013 –
Ivorypress Madrid
2009 – No
discipline at Museum of Modern Art New York
2008 – No
Disciplines at Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
2000 "Not Made by Hand, Not Made in
China", Galleria Giò Marconi, Milan
2000 "Before and After Now",
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1996-98 "Ron Arad and Ingo
Maurer", Spazio Krizia, Milan
1990-95 "Ron Arad - Sticks &
Stones", Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
1987 Documenta 8, Kassel
