Zeev aram biography examples

  • Founded by Zeev Aram in 1964, Aram is a five-floor emporium in London's Covent Garden showcasing the best in modern furniture design.
  • Furniture and interior designer Zeev Aram, who promoted numerous modernist and emerging designers at London's Aram Store, has passed away at the age of 89.
  • A short, barrel-chested man, with a slightly rolling sailor's gait, Aram was born in Transylvania in 1931.

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    We are delighted to grace the famous floors at the Aram Store

    When Zeev Aram opened his first showroom in 1964, a small, white space on London’s Kings Road, he might as well have landed on the moon.

    At the time, he recalls, you could buy the odd piece of Eames but generally, the UK was a modern furniture desert. And here was the work of Castiglioni, Breuer, and Le Corbusier, for the first time available to the public to buy and put in their own homes. Looking into that tiny showroom with its open slot cut into the window for mail, was like looking into the future. Zeev would stand outside, listening to the comments of passers-by as they stopped and stared through the glass at the bright, white, stainless steel interior. Most were incredulous. “Who needs this rubbish?” they asked. They called it clinical, and wondered why anyone would want to buy ‘hospital furniture’. For 33 year-old Zeev, it was a dream come true. “The important thing is that there was a reaction,” he says. “I wa

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    “Eileen Gray's designs are now as familiar as designs from the other important early 20th Century architects and designers such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer et al”
    Zeev Aram, Chairman, Aram Designs Ltd

    Biography

    Born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland in 1878, Eileen Gray spent her childhood in London and was among the first women to be admitted to the Slade, where she took up painting in 1898 before undergoing an apprenticeship in a London lacquer workshop. The experience she gained in working in this highly specialised medium was to influence her profoundly when she moved to Paris in 1902. After further training in lacquer work and cabinet making, she quickly established herself as one of the leading designers of the lacquered screens and decorative panels so beloved by the followers of art deco, and even managed to cause a riot by showing a stark white lacquered boudoir at the 14th Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in 1923.

    In 1922 she opened her ow

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