Vibia’s Plusminus Lighting System
I went to a lecture at Technolite’s new showroom in Airport City last week and was introduced to Vibia’s new Plusminus lighting system as the track light of the future. Designed by Stefan Diaz, Plusminus combines a flexible, conductive textile belt with lights that can connect to it at any point and be hung in infinite ways: taut or loose, straight or curvy, up or down, left or right. Vibia’s website calls the design “equal parts easy and avant-garde … If you can draw it, Plusminus can create it.” The pictures explain it all.
Dusen Dusen’s Patterns
Designer Ellen Van Dusen launched her bold-print womenswear line Dusen Dusen in 2010, and in 2015 she expanded into textile and home goods. She pairs vibrant colors and patterns like no other and has been hailed by Domino as having “reinvented the stripe.” Her trick for combining colors is to select two that are on opposite ends of the color wheel, but then shift them slightly. Some of her towels, robes, bedding, and throws ship to Israel, so have a look around if you’re game to splurge on customs fees.
Frill Furniture
I love these wood pieces by Tel Aviv-based furniture designer Gila Babich. After years in the news business, she pivoted to woodworking and started Frill Furniture in 2018.
