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Article: Ron Arad ... thought he could save the world with his chairs. His furniture may not have actually rescued the planet, but he has surely saved the design world from boredom and predictability: tables standing on walls, armchairs made of car seats, and crystal chandeliers that display text messages ... He's titled a new show "No Discipline"--which could mean that he's transforming all of them.(Interview)
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THE STUDIO is on Chalk Farm Road in North West London. You enter it by way of a flaky blue gate that opens onto a cobbled lane called Old Dairy Mews. You then climb a steel stair and find yourself, with a dislocating sci-fi effect, inside a bendy, asymmetrical space where, at first glance, the principal occupants are chairs. Then you note that there are assistants sinking into their computer screens, like Alice just before she slips through the looking glass, but they are outnumbered by chairs and models for other projects. A few models are rendered in graphics--one is graffitied KEEP THE TEXTURE MAKE REFLECTIVE--but mostly they are in the round.
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