Samy D.


Samy D. is an Israeli ceramic artist based in Tel Aviv.

Art career

The Samy D. studio is located in Tel Aviv's Neve Zedek neighborhood.
His works have appeared in design and fashion journals. breakfast in El Al Airlines first-class cabin was served on Samy D. dishes. Samy D. has produced ceramics for commercial use and one-off artworks thrown on a potter's wheel, sometimes decorated with 14 carat gold.
One series of pieces are etched with micrographic passages from the Book of Genesis, some in Hebrew, some from the Vulgate. The text begins in even swirls but becomes "twisted and warped," at the verse where man is created.

Awards and recognition

In 2009, Samy D. won first prize at the Alix De Rothschild Crafts Awards, an annual art prize given by the Alix de Rothschild Foundation in memory of Baroness Lavinia Anne Alix De Rothschild by a London-based jury to an Israeli artist for exceptional work in glass, jewellery, ceramics, textiles, or metal.

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