As part of Museum Victoria’s Designed to Inspire program and Bombay Sapphire, internationally renowned designer and architect Professor Ron Arad will be guest speaker at Melbourne Museum. This will be your only chance to catch Ron Arad in Melbourne.

The lecture will be followed by Bombay Sapphire cocktails and the Melbourne annoucement of the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award 2007.

Spaces are VERY limited, bookings are essential. Tel: 13 11 02

When: 6pm, Wednesday 31 October 2007
Where: Melbourne Museum, Nicholson Street, Carlton
Cost: $20 Adult, $15 Concessions and MVMembers

Sponsored by Bombay Sapphire.

Background info about Ron Arad
Ron Arad designs for many leading companies including Kartell, Vitra, Moroso, Fiam, Driade, Alessi and Flos. His architectural projects include include Maserati Headquaters Showroom in Italy, the living room and family room for Sheikh Saud Al-Thani’s Villa in Qata, the Selfridges Technology Hall in London, the Tel Aviv Opera Foyer in Israel, the Belgo Noord and Belgo Centraal restaurants in London and the development of a concept of sport cafes for Adidas include the new flagship Adidas Stadium in Paris.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1951 and studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Art and the Architectural Association in London, he is currently the Head of the Design Products Department at the Royal College of Art, London. His works are widely exhibited in galleries and museums across the world, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Vitra Design Museum, Germany and Tokyo.