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Located near the Sea of Galilee, the city boasts a
popular exhibit of a 2,000 year-old boat recovered during the lifetime of
Jesus. Israel is also home to featured
jewelry designer Tomer Matityahu.
Jewelry can be simultaneously powerful and pared down. It is a combination that seems diametrically
opposed yet Matityahu’s clean aesthetic nails it.
The simple juxtaposition of white sterling silver with black lava stones or black rubber with oxidized silver is so restrained and yet so striking.
The simple juxtaposition of white sterling silver with black lava stones or black rubber with oxidized silver is so restrained and yet so striking.
A graduate of the Avni
Institute of Art and Design the sculptural outlines of his curvilinear
handmade collections is informed by the principles of product design and
jewelry making. And although his massive
sterling silver cuff bracelets appear to be cumbersome Matityahu keeps the
wearer in mind.
“Ever since I can remember I was looking into forms and
materials. I grew up watching my father
make jewelry and this urged me to touch and feel materials; to cut and assemble
them,” he recalls.
“A jewel is not only a thing of beauty, but also a
non-verbal way of communicating. I
strongly respect how the human body relates to jewelry. My work implies the finger is part of the
ring. It is the coming together of a
human with a motionless material.
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It is very important to me as a designer and goldsmith to
engage between these worlds of materials, technique and functionality and to
maintain a free relation among all these elements.”
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