local design by michael tsinzovsky from israel

What is local design ? At time when all kinds of crafts are disappearing because of the mass-consumption , industrial designers are losing their local identity . As a third year student in “Bezalel” Academy of arts & Design in Jerusalem I wanted to learn if there is such thing as an "Israeli design" , in a relatively young country , without long tradition of design and making , that tries to be European in the middle of the Middle East . The project was made through a glance at the local making cultures , from Arabic carpets and Arabesques through the German carpenters that came in the 50's and up to the biggest industry in the country - plastic injected furniture plus the cultural mix between the people that gathered from all around the world and formed the Israeli society.
Elements that I mixed are the Arabic-arabesque , traditional carpentry and the Israeli plastic industry witch makes the most simple and cheapest plastic furniture - that is known for plastic support ribs and the "suction" flows of the material (injection mistakes - low pressure) . My mission was to make the chair as much "designed" as possible using the simple plastic solutions and still use the crafts that I mentioned above. I wanted to integrate all the elements (like the local society ) , and that's how the support ribs became the arabesque ornament that are thick so the injection flows will appear on the top as gesture to the plastic industry that tries to avoid it , and the legs are made of birch wood , carved as one peace and sawed into four peaces , to emphasize the fact that if the industry can work with craft , the craft can work with the industry , the connection between the wood and the plastic is made both as plastic and wood conjunction by applying pressure without any screws or glue .