The London-based Israeli designer Ron Arad has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with Italian manufacturer Moroso. Their first collaboration? The 12-piece Spring collection, launched in 1991–the avant-garde designer’s first production pieces. They’ve since dreamed up a number of other intriguing creations together, including the delightfully satisfying Misfits, which launched at Milan last year. Misfits is at once cleverly high-concept and wholly functional: it’s actually made of six separate units with sinuous seats that don’t quite fit together–very silly/fun–and that can be reconfigured into various arrangements. Genius!
A hotly anticipated retrospective of Arad’s work opens next summer at MoMA, but you can get a little taste of things to come right now at Moroso’s Soho store, which is currently staging an installation charting their 18-year collaboration. Now that’s a fit. –Jen Renzi
via Apartment Therapy and the New York Times
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