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.
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.
The first book dedicated to the museum collection and deals with chairs from the collection. 28 chairs, the work of international and local designers, familiar iconic chairs alongside innovative prototypes by students from the leading academies in Israel express the museum's approach to the collection and reading the world of design through it. The book includes an original article by Prof. Azri Tarzi dealing with the development of the "chair" object in Western culture.
A catalogue with a distinctive format, comprising three booklets – Introduction, Past, and Present – bound together in an unusual way. The catalogue includes ten articles by the foremost East European researchers that add a historical dimension alongside references to contemporary design. Dozens of photographs of historical and contemporary design items enrich the perspective of the 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
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.
What is senseware? Kenya Hara, the exhibition director, describes it as "a matter that stirs the human creative instinct and awakens the desire to make things."
In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis in decades, a period of glamorous and streamlined design for design’s sake comes to an end. A new generation of designers retrace their roots, refine their earth and research their history, sometimes going back to the beginning of time.
The inaugural exhibition, is an international exhibition featuring approximately 100 objects. The research, collection and selection process undertaken by the four curators involved examining the work strategies of contemporary designers, the criteria that shape their choice of specific themes, the conceptual and technological development of the objects, their production process and their media reception
