Designist Dream

Israeli artists and designers are strongly representing at this year’s SOFA expo in Chicago. The 14th annual international exposition of Sculpture Objects and Function Art opens this weekend (November 2nd - 4th) where close to 100 international galleries and dealers are presenting decorative artworks from the USA, France, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, Italy, New [...]

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The ceramic bowls and plates by Einat Cohen take my breath away. Something about the pastel, opalescent surfaces of the slip cast fruit peel bowls is so captivating that when my husband bought me one for my last birthday, I cried. Even though they’re simple fruit shapes, they seem profoundly complex to me: simultaneously organic [...]

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The scene:
Fashion Street, Internetland
Three young women are walking towards each other.
From the left, she exudes cool, comfort and an urban-punk attitude. Although she’s got a tune stuck in her head, she’s moseying on by as if her boom-box bag were blasting.
From the right, two best friends, hang all over each other, laughing and smiling. [...]

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If Israeli design had a superstar, Arik Levy would be it. An all-around Renaissance man for the 21st century, Israeli-born Levy works in various media - from print and graphic to sculpture and industrial design - and venues across the world through his French-based company ldesign. Most recently, Levy’s Rockfusion line of installation-art-turned-home-interior-fashion was [...]

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Before I continue recounting my adventures in Tel Aviv’s Gan HaHashmal neighborhood last weekend, I thought it only fair to provide some history about this newly-renovated-and-now-super-trendy area. Gan HaHashmal, or “the Electric Garden” in Hebrew, named after the city’s first power plant, is an old area of Tel Aviv that used to be a haven [...]

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What started as a small test-run with an $11 strip of leather and seven hand-made bags five years ago has recently turned into an internationally sold and sought-after label for Israeli designer, Tali Epstein Segal. Sumptuous leather replete with subtle details and more obvious studs and fringes have come to define the eponymous TES brand [...]

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Everyone loves chocolate - even the dieting set find the smallest bite hard to resist - and that’s what Beitili, Israel’s ubiquitous mid-range furniture and home design chain, is hoping to achieve with their new season of couches, chairs, dining room sets and matching accessories for Fall/ Winter 2007/8. Their inspiration or theme for this [...]

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While pregnant, I found myself surfing tons of baby/ pregnancy sites for diaper bags. Like shoes, diaper bags aren’t contingent on gaining or losing weight (before or after baby) so I often found myself hunting for the perfect bag: part backpack, part messenger bag, wholly stylish, mostly large and very organized. turns out, I didn’t [...]

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