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Eilon Armon

Eilon Armon is an Israeli furniture, product and space designer who headed the Department of Industrial Design at the Holon Institute of Technology.

born 1963Furniture and chair designTeaching industrial design in HolonChairs made from reused objects

Occupation: designer, university teacher, real estate entrepreneur
Education: Ironi He High School (Tel Aviv), Holon Institute of Technology, Royal College of Art

Eilon Armon was born in 1963 in Tel Aviv

Eilon Armon was born in 1963 in Tel Aviv and grew up there. He attended the Tel Nordau elementary school and Ironi Hey high school in the city.

He served in the air defense forces and left as a captain, after a last post as battery commander. In 1986 he began studying industrial design at the Holon Institute of Technology, winning several excellence scholarships. In 1991 he went to London for a master's degree at the Royal College of Art, where he specialized in furniture design.

In England he founded the company Armon Design and worked as an independent designer, showing his work at trade fairs in several countries. He returned to Israel in 1995, soon closed the company and turned to teaching. He taught furniture design at ORT College and at the Holon Institute of Technology, and headed its industrial design department from 1999 to 2001.

His work often deals with chairs, bicycles and reused objects found in the street. His first solo exhibition opened in 2001, and in 2018 he showed 24 etchings about chairs. He has also led charity projects, including one in 2016 that turned street bicycles into rocking chairs to raise money for UNICEF.