In 2008 all Bezalel types of shells heard of Mae and Boaz Kahn. Of the nearly - 5,000 selected from around the world are facing their design: Salt and pepper have to break before types of shells use, to first place in an international competition to design types of shells household Milan (dining in 2015), and even before completing types of shells their third year of studies. Since Kahn Studio presents design exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including the last two years participating Ceramics Biennale and Design Fair "fresh design". The works are sold in leading museums sons Holon Design Museum, the Museum of New York stunned Art Museum - Mori in Tokyo, Japan. Also home cooling system in design "degeneration" (Ecooler) won the two prize at GREENHEART eco design. This work is among other things the Material Library of Columbia University, and was acquired for the permanent collection types of shells of the Israeli Knesset. So do they see themselves as designers or industrial ceramic? types of shells Creative design studio or two separate artists? How Israeli audience reacts types of shells to their jobs? And whether it hurts to be a designer? Yes - but pleasant pain.
"Well, looks impressive ..." types of shells she says, but something is still unclear, "Why are you writing this blog?" She asks "Can you understand what's in it?" Mmm ... in my spare time I have to really think of a good answer types of shells to the question. I also stutter Mai was a reply, I remember all the times I've come across designs Mae and Boaz Kahn: the salt - pepperbox bought their existing sales Bezalel has not found the courage to break it. Two years later I met Boaz framework Bezalel laboratory work, and I heard him then about his first thoughts H"acolr home cooling solution 'combining elements types of shells of Hmsrbeih shading East and sweating capabilities types of shells of ceramics - and offers an ecological solution to cool a house without electricity. When I walked around a few months ago in a flea market and came across one of the stores in order to make it creamy Half pay you must break it, my heart dropped a decision: I must meet them!
Why am I writing a blog? To get answers types of shells to all the questions I think, even in the age of hyper information which we live, yet to be answered. And the couple Kahn returns center Material veteran with the scent aunt something like ceramic, but does this fresh approach, a couple who chooses to work with career and life, a design studio that develops objects that touch on the one hand in the accessories and the other side in interior design, on the one hand offer off the shelf products types of shells and on the Second - turn collectors, their choices cost a lot of questions.
Studio Kahn, Salt pepperbox - broken before use "A lot of times you participate in exhibitions, collaborations and meetings are kind of 'Cast your bread - you do not really know what's in them., But need to feel confident with it, and happened often the bottom line, we felt utilized. "
"My mother was a dancer and father an electronics engineer, so humane and real always had mixed me" tell me Boaz the transition made after ten years of studying and working in the physics of Industrial Design: "In high school I studied art, but after the army wanted to be serious, do something responsible and important - So I went to study physics. " Mae came after the Industrial Design types of shells Department in a way she did dance: "In high school I studied at the Academy of Music and Dance, danced types of shells all my life, I Jerusalem and dancer - those are two things that define me very day."
And Boaz adds: "It's interesting that I thought of a father of Mae influential figure, her father types of shells has the ability to use what he finds around and build it what it needs, and it happens even here in the studio: if there is a problem to be solved, I think the solutions U complicated, and May took down a wire that solves the problem. "
When I ask how Boaz had Bezalel school experience, types of shells he recalled: "After ten years of physics, Bezalel school had a celebration. Has the freedom to create, experiment, and, you know ... suddenly been around girls, it's all been fun."
But probably one Saturday stood out above them all, and in their second year studies marry Boaz and May. In the third year they create their first project together two wins the first prize in the international competition to design housewares, and his idea: a product in order to function the user must break it, will become a concept that will accompany the works of Hkahnim on an entire product series.
Studio Kahn, chain links - broken before types of shells using "Something atmosphere here in a bit overwhelming, we hear from the environment how there's a lot of money, or offer us at least one of us went to work a regular job, but need to stay in your bubble, and dare to dream."
And how it is to run a business? How do you experience this task? "This types of shells is especially annoying" she concludes, "has fully learn the flesh errors: for example, after a year I worked here 12 hours a day we discovered that I registered as a housewife at all, and could not get maternity allowance."
And Boaz adds: "It takes courage to do that., I think something about our being in Berlin types of shells legitimate for this move - start a business designing ceramic. Has something about the atmosphere here in a bit overwhelming, we hear around a lot how there's no money, or offer us at least one of us went to work a regular job, but need to stay in your bubble, and dare to dream. "
I think this is an issue that many young designers are struggling with, what you really say today, after five years of brand management, young people at the outset? "We have a deep breath," said Boaz, "take types of shells a breather and know that there is now a long dive in front of you." types of shells
M: "It is important to set goals, we work in a highly structured framework of clear written goals. Maybe they have changed a bit once in tune, but they were clear to us from the beginning, and only now, after five years of work, we see how they Surge
