Designist Dream

Well a two week visit to the States traded blogging time for fun with family and friends. One of the highlights of our NY trip was a visit to the American Folk Art Museum to see the exhibition “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: From the Synagogue to the Carousel”. With an amazing array of artwork [...]

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To celebrate Harry’s big birthday this weekend, we took a fun-filled family trip to the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. Aside from the animals – and the joy of introducing Tzofi to them (penguins, elephants and monkeys scored high on the smiles and squeals scale) – I really wanted to see the sculpture park created by French [...]

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A recent family jaunt to Tel Aviv led us to the city’s current public art project, Global View. More than 100 globes dotted the beautiful Rothschild Boulevard as part of a joint business-art venture that partnered the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), NY Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and London Stock Exchange (LSE) with 100 leading Israeli [...]

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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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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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