An Apartment for an Art Collector

Interior design and comprehensive renovation of a 100 sqm four-room apartment in a 1990s building in Herzliya HaTzeira, designed for a family with a young child and a dog. The owner’s work in promoting Israeli art became an important point of departure for the design and character of the home.

The renovation focused on opening up the apartment and creating a continuous relationship between its spaces. The kitchen, originally enclosed and separated from the living room, was opened to the public area. A utility room was removed to enlarge the adjacent bathroom and introduce a window, while a small walk-in closet next to the master bedroom was eliminated to create a more spacious bathroom, with storage integrated into the bedroom itself. Additional changes to doorways and the layout of the corridor shortened the circulation areas and opened up the apartment, deliberately reducing some of the separation between spaces.

Art is an integral part of the experience of the home. Works collected over the years, chosen both for their artistic qualities and their personal and emotional significance, were incorporated into the design as an inherent part of the space rather than as separate decorative elements. Works by Moshe Kashi, Chen Shish, Shay Yehezkel and others engage in a dialogue with the architecture, adding layers of color, depth and character to the home.

The result is an open, vibrant and personal home in which design and art naturally become part of everyday life, creating a living environment designed not simply to display art, but to live with it.