Dan Yeffet And His Iconic Pieces

Dan Yeffet

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Dan Yeffet was born in Jerusalem in 1971 and attended the Bezalel Academy School of Art and Design from 1999 to 2001. He subsequently relocated to the Netherlands, where he graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2002 with a degree in Industrial Product.

He launched an office in Amsterdam after graduation before migrating to Paris in 2005, where he now lives and works in the Viaduc des Arts artistic zone. He works in a variety of fields, including architecture, product design, textiles, and sculpture. His work is a hybrid of Israeli pragmatism and northern European aesthetics, distinguished by a conceptual, essential, and original style that combines craft and contemporary technology. He creates furniture, lamps, glass sculptures, everyday things, installations, street furniture, and one-of-a-kind products.

He has worked with a number of design firms. He collaborated with the French business oOumm, which created the Phoenix series of glass oil lamps, as well as the Antila, Lyra, Octans, Corvus, and Orion family of marble candleholders. He created the Balloons and Muffins table lamps, as well as the indoor and outdoor Shadow hanging lights, for the Czech business Brokis.

Dan’s work can be found in prestigious museums and galleries such as the New Design Museum in Chicago, “Visual Delight” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 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.

In 2014, he received the FNAC (Fonds National d’Art Contemporain), in 2010, the Elle Decor International Prize, and in 2012, the Grand Czech Design award Designer of the Year.