Brad Ascalon, born in 1977, is an American industrial designer who grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill Township, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree at Rutgers University, and received a Masters Degree in industrial design from New York's Pratt Institute. His early artistic and design influences included his grandfather, the Hungarian-born Art Deco sculptor and industrial designer Maurice Ascalon, as well as his father, the American sculptor and stained glass artist David Ascalon, founder of Ascalon Studios.
His early design experience included work in the area of furniture and product design with the firm of Karim Rashid, and packaging design for the cosmetics conglomerate L'Oreal. In 2005, the international design magazine ' selected Ascalon as one the year's top-ten up-and-coming designers, citing the design of his his bent-plywood Tivola chair. Presently, through his own New York City-based studio, Ascalon's emphasis is contemporary furniture design. His concepts have been manufactured and featured in the catalogues of notable firms throughout the world, including France's Ligne Roset, where he is the only American ever selected to design for the company.
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