Features: Ron Gilad - More than just Function
Ron Gilad is a poet among designers. His designs dissect spaces and objects, re-examine everyday life and play with irony and abstraction. In this conversation that took place in Milan he tells us that to work he needs a lot of sun and a lot of cigarettes. On the balcony of a 1920s villa at Via Canova 34, he has even installed an over-sized cigarette that puffs out smoke into the warm spring air. The Israeli-born art director for Italian company Danese recently transformed the garden rooms of the company's HQ in the centre of Milan into light-flooded exhibition spaces, a move that elucidates his approach to the legacy of Italian design.
