Robert Stadler

design
at the noguchi museaum

interview by MIKAEL ZIKOS
portrait by ALEX ANTITCH
photography by OLIVIER ZAHM
in “Solid Doubts,” Robert Stadler’s exhibition at the Noguchi Museum 

All Robert Stadler works courtesy of the artist and Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris 
All Isamu Noguchi works, collection of the Noguchi Museum, New York

ISAMU NOGUCHI, PINK JIZO, SCULPTURE, MARBLE AND BRASS, 1960; ROBERT STADLER, CUT_PASTE #8, TABLE, MARBLE AND ALUCORE, 2015

Robert Stadler was born in Vienna in 1966. In 1992, he cofounded RADI DESIGNERS, an experimental group famous for uncanny industrial objects whose role in the history of design is something like that of an alternative music group. Since the turn of the millennium, Stadler has gone on to create his own products and installations for manufacturers as well as museums and galleries. Fun, suprising as well as functional, his pieces embrace the hardness…