Collection: Dan Yeffet
Dan Yeffet was born in 1971 in Jerusalem, where he studied Industrial Design at the Bezalel Academy School of Art and Design from 1999 to 2001. He then moved to the Netherlands, where he obtained a degree in Industrial product at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2002. After graduating, he opened an office in Amsterdam before moving to Paris in 2005, where he currently lives and works in the Viaduc des Arts creative district. He works on various fronts, from architecture to product design, textiles and sculpture. His work is a cross-pollination of Israeli pragmatism and northern European aesthetics, characterised by a conceptual, essential and innovative method combining craft and new technologies. He designs furniture, lamps, glass sculptures, everyday objects, installations, street furniture and limited edition items.
He has collaborated with numerous design manufactureres. He worked with the French brand oOumm which produced the Phoenix series of oil lamps made of glass, the Antila, Lyra, Octans, Corvus and Orion family of marble candleholders. For the Czech company Brokis, he designed the Balloons and Muffins table lamps and the indoor and outdoor versions of the Shadow hanging lamps. He created a line of blown glass table lamps (Alto Small) for Linteloo, joined by the Balanced series of Murano glass coffee tables. For many years, he collaborated with Czech designer Lucie Koldova on various projects, including the particularly successful Urban Island modular system for MMcité.
His works are in such renowned museums and galleries as the New Design Museum in Chicago, "Visual Delight" at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia, the Maritime Museum in New London-US, the Modam Museum in Luxembourg, the FNAC Foundation in Paris, the V&A in London, the Design Museum in Holon Israel and the Shanghai Museum of Glass. He was awarded the FNAC (Fonds National d'Art Contemporain) in 2014, the Elle Decor International Prize in 2010 and the Grand Czech Design award Designer of Year award in 2012.
