Special exhibition catalog celebrating a decade for the Holon Design Museum. A bilingual catalog celebrating a decade for Design Museum Holon. It includes five articles and a collection of design clichés written by key people in the international and local design world. The catalog include pictures and explanations of most of the works in the exhibition.
To mark the exhibition, a special bilingual catalogue is published, tracing the development of eyeglasses through the mirror of history, philosophy, and culture. Alongside photographs of eyeglasses from the collection, the catalogue includes articles by a variety of authors from the fields of fashion, medicine, philosophy, design and art, providing an observation of this object from different perspectives.
This distinctive catalogue was published with the opening of the exhibition, and includes six articles in accordance with the six categories, an interview Oki Sato conducted with Maria Cristina Didero (the exhibition’s curator), as well as all the objects displayed in the exhibition. Contributors to the book include Galit Gaon, Dr. Ory Bartal, Marco Sammicheli, Glenn Adamson, Eric Chen and Libby Sellers.
This publication and the accompanying exhibition displayed at Design Museum Holon are more than a documentation of current trends. They are a Call for Action. They are a plea for a new “recognition of shade” and for the creation of “shade-scapes” in our urban environments.
“IN-Possible” offers the public a glimpse into the lesser known part of the Alessi Museum collection and reveals the inner workings of one of the leading Italian factories of design through a selection of projects that never saw the light of day.
“Stools” exhibition presented about 450 objects created in Studio Yaacov Kaufman in the past eight years. The stools are presented as a complete and continuous course of action, resembling their own development process. At first glance they seem to be replicated mutations of a small piece of furniture – like the animation produced when flipping a flip book. A second, more focused look reveals a diverse, continuously developing, non-hierarchical system of examinations that has no beginning or end, edges or margins. And if they did not have to leave the studio, the stools would continue to fill the small space in Jaffa until it burst at the seams.
In Reverse highlights a selection of Arad’s work in metal – ranging from chairs to sculptural pieces – from the past three decades. The exhibition examines the ongoing dialogue between handmade and digital processes in Arad’s practice and will feature a new project designed especially for this exhibition.
Maestro of avant-garde fashion, Yohji Yamamoto remains one of the world’s most influential and enigmatic designers and over the last forty years has made a vital contribution to fashion, challenging traditional norms of clothing with his style. The exhibition at Design Museum Holon is particularly meaningful as it coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Japan-Israel relationship and the 40th anniversary of Yamamoto’s company, Y’s
Disdain for a boring global market coupled with a fear of the virtualisation of society has inspired designers to create work that is linked to the humanisation of the making process and the contextualisation of a more responsible lifestyle. Craft has therefore become one of the major movements of our time and can be understood as the repetition of skills that belong to our common past, exuding a sense of belonging and continuity.
The exhibition presents creative interpretations by contemporary designers for motifs from the past. The wide variety of works included in the exhibition indicates that these designers, most of whom are in their twenties and thirties, consider the past a source of inspiration and derive great pleasure from using an assortment of icons and symbols from various historical periods.
