Ron Arad

Israeli-born Londoner Ron Arad fits the bill as far as MYO is concerned. There's an article on his new Madrid hotel in the Times (Link). Unfortunately the site for the hotel got screwed up in the my computer's Flash, but it sounds cool.

Also, here's a short interview with him with some pictures from the Designboom site (Link).

Arad's own site is under construction, but has the best 'under construction' page I've ever seen: (Link - click the 'enter' link).