NOAM DOVER & MICHAL CEDERBAUM
Israeli Swedish designers and artists Noam Dover & Michal Cederbaum question the traditional boundaries between design, craft and production and address the cultural origins of materials and techniques. This methodology and the cultural heritage of their immediate surroundings prompted them to spotlight one of the oldest known storage and shipping containers: the amphora. From the Dressel Table, an amphora classification project started by t19 th century German archeologist Heinrich Dressel, to the open-source Amphora Project, Dover & Cederbaum examine the amphora’s symbolic meaning as a cultural signifier on early migration paths and trade routes as well as its impact on the development of craft and trade as a propellor of our civilization’s history. They weave a narrative that begins with the amphora and culminates in a celebration of the synergy between traditional glass making and digital fabrication.
Michal Cederbaum graduated with a BFA in Visual Communication from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Her work includes text design for the Łódź Ghetto memorial in Poland, curation of the Israeli exhibition at the 11th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy. She is currently a lecturer at the Wizo Design Academy in Haifa, Israel.
Noam Dover received his BFA in Industrial Design from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and his MFA in glass from Konstfack, the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. His projects include scenography, interior design for David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem. Noam is a faculty member at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, Israel.
Cederbaum & Dover have exhibited widely including participating in presentations at Milan Design Week and Design Miami, and exhibitions at Glassmuseet Ebeltoft, Finish Glass Museum in Riihimäki, as well as in Berlin, London, Paris and Stockholm, in Israel & Japan. Their work is included in public collections at the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel; Design Museum Holon, Israel and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada.
