Designist Dream

My husbandHarry loves anything tanks. After serving in a tank unit in the Israeli army, he loves them, has lived them and knows them intimately. Any opportunity to talk about them – its history, types of, tools for, and his funny experiences with – is taken advantage of. So I thought I’d indulge him by [...]

Lucky New Yorkers can visit the first museum exhibition of contemporary Israeli design in the U.S. at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum now through April 23rd. “New Design from Israel” features approximately 25 works – ranging from furniture to lighting to multimedia installations – from 19 Israeli designers. More information, including links to designers’ websites [...]

Say it slowly and you’ll get it: de-sign-ist dream. Harry and I came up with the name of this blog on our way in to Jerusalem one morning. And we were stoked. He because it was an uber-witty pun where the Zionist Dream is transformed into a blog on design and aesthetics in the holy [...]