“There are virtually no limits," said Ron Arad of the creative possibilities of technology. “Smart materials, sharp tools, sci-fi production, it’s all here. Now! The present is much too fascinating to stop and worry too much about the future. If you look at the present deeply enough, the future will become discernible." Having studied architecture, Arad (1951-) taught himself how to make furniture, initially from found materials, in his London design studio during the early 1980s before welding exuberant forms from metals, such as steel and aluminium, in limited editions of sculptural furniture. Arad then developed mass-manufactured versions of those forms as upholstered pieces like Soft Heart.