Nostalgia - The Modern Version | Israel today

The terrazzo has become a spectacular vase, the basic glass has become a collection of metallic mirrors and a brown house of one house in Tzur Yigal has become a family mosaic creation • Contemporary engagement with favorite materials from the past

• Mosaic works by the creator Ariel Hirschfeld

In case you haven’t noticed yet, the base materials occupy the design scene.

Glass, concrete, iron and stone, come in different interpretations and blend gracefully into the spaces of the private home.

Why now?

There are several reasons for this -

In the last decade, advanced technology has made a significant leap, enabling the creation of practical materials for maintenance, which mimic the real product.

Anyone who knows and follows the analysis of trends presented here from time to time, knows the polar behavior - the more one end is active, the opposite end will also work at the same intensity, and in the range between the two ends many things happen.

As technology offers alternatives that mimic the real thing and satisfy the minds of those seeking the available and convenient practicality, the opposite end will turn to the natural material, to the source, taking into account the fact that such material is breathable and changeable material. The great magic of the material.

Another reason is the development of the sustainability trend.

We as consumers think sustainability and behave more and more according to the laws it dictates.

We use fewer bags at the supermarket, looking to purchase products made from recycled materials, and when a plate breaks we turn it into pieces of mosaic that cover the wall.

Ariel Hirschfeld made fractions his main occupation.

Hirschfeld is a designer who creates in mosaic, which is based on the depreciation of clay tiles in different colors.

He works with them and creates everything from large-scale murals to utensils such as colorful urns, coffee tables and more.

From mosaic works by the creator Ariel Hirschfeld

A visit to Tzur Yigal Kochav Yair introduced me to a spectacular wall, in a private house in a community whose concrete wall in front of it is completely covered with mosaic.

Hila Sharon Cohen, the owner of the house, creates the wall as a continuous work - every time a vessel breaks, she adds a piece of it for cladding.

Beyond the green act in question, there is also a sentimental value here, which further connects the house to its owner.

The front of the wall is made of fragments of a beloved cup, a plate they once received as a gift and more.

The use of nostalgic materials also reinforces the terrazzo tile, the same tile whose surface shows aggregates of different sizes, the one that visited the homes of each of us and may even be present in some of them today.

The terrazzo is back in a more up-to-date form, with more sophisticated games of aggregates offered by advanced technology tiles, such as terrazzo-looking porcelain granite tiles, and an interesting breakthrough by product designers who choose to engage in the material and create tools and fittings such as vases, mezuzahs and various vessels.

RAFA Terrazzo Object is an Israeli brand in local production whose owner, Matan Sadeh Hemo, creates in a primitive production technique with advanced materials, items that are considered one of a kind that are all based on terrazzo.

Design items made of terrazzo using a primitive production technique, by the designer Matan Sade Hamo, RAFA Terrazzo Object

International product designers place the terrazzo as a major source of inspiration for their designs.

Spanish designer Patricia Ocariola has designed an entire collection of soft textile beds inspired by the rigid material.

Sustainability, especially now after a year of a shaky epidemic, makes us a little more considerate, maybe a little more refined, wanting to connect to basic materials, less noise and ringing, more modesty, from the best place of the word.

Nostalgic materials like glass, which in some ways have been pushed aside a bit, return to the center of the stage and receive up-to-date interpretations.

Racheli Sharpstein is a product designer whose description she has done here in Israel and Italy.

I met her in her studio in Tel Aviv.

Sharpstein gives glass original interpretations that put the viewer into a rich world detached from rhythm and time.

In its product mix, the mirrors stand out - designed mirrors, mostly round with metal-colored glass, that give a humorous wink, and in the deeper sense, allow us to look at ourselves into ourselves through colorful prisms that raise questions.