Tel Aviv, Israel
January 30, 2019
By Ross Belfer
It took only one year to finally connect with Ohad Benit on a visit to his south Tel Aviv studio and workspace. But this meeting was destiny. Philosophical late-morning conversations about design, Tel Aviv, family, struggle and beauty took creeped their way into our verbial projections, bridging the divide between stranger and friend. What I discovered is that Benit is not a designer who sticks to one lane, or an artist craves attention. Because of this reason alone, his work is pure, authentic and unpredictable. Benit’s work contains the insatiable energy of Tel Aviv (spoiler: his studio is literally overlooking a metal scrap yard) with the calmness of sophisticated, universal design. “Stretching the thin line that separates and differentiates stability and fragilness.” Familiar, yet distant. Mediterranean-yet-universal. We speak about moments in tangible form. Absorb these feelings through the photo series, below.
