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Robert Stadler

Robert Stadler was born in Vienna in 1966. The designer has always been drawn to the details of objects and the narratives they evoke. He studied design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan before attending the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris in the late 1980s. He has continued to work in Paris ever since.

Arist Biography

In 1992 Stadler co-founded the RADI Designers collective, whose varied practice revolved around the marriage of the everyday and the unusual. Stadler began to work on solo projects in 2002, though he continued to collaborate with RADI until the studio’s dissolution in 2008.

Stadler’s interests encompass both what he terms “aristocratic design” and objects typically deemed vulgar or absurd; he explores the possibilities for building bridges between the apparently incompatible.

He is involved in furniture making, product, interaction design, art installations, and multimedia ac-tivities. He frequently questions objects’ established identities.

His furniture tends to both convey and destroy preconceived notions of what an object should be. Although works such as his Possible Furniture series may at times appear haphazard, they are perfectly constructed to fulfil their ergonomic purpose.

Exhibitions

Press

Galerie Magazine

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August 2023

5 Must See Collectible Design Shows on View this August

To mark the one-year anniversary of its Los Angeles outpost, Carpenters Workshop Gallery enlisted Alexander May, founder of West Hollywood’s Sized Studio, to...

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Financial Times

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October 2023

PAD celebrates 15 years of opening London’s eyes to design

The London PAD art and design fair reflects the evolution of a growing global appetite for contemporary collectible...

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