Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Ron Gilad

October 12, 2007

6:30 p.m.

Ron Gilad co-founded Designfenzider in 2001. Selected by Forbes as one of 2007's ten tastemakers in industrial design, Gilad creates hybrid objects that straddle the line between abstraction and function. His work—from candlesticks made with wine glasses to chandeliers constructed from task lamps—is simultaneously elegant and witty. Gilad attended the Industrial Design Department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.