Highlighting a significant period in the Israeli designer and architect’s career, this survey tracks his experimentation with industrial methods and materials in pieces such as “Tinker Chair,” the development of his subversive, playful forms, and his then-emerging geometric clarity in furniture series including “Cone” and “Big Easy.”

Ron Arad, “Italian Fish” (1988). Photo: Dan Kukla. Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Ron Arad.