Thursday, August 19, 2010

Tel Aviv’s New Un-Mall

There are a half-dozen or so restaurants, too, either Israeli, like the tapas spot Shushka Shvilli, or Italian. All are al fresco, which makes the ambience as far away from food court as you can get. Café Greg is separated by a high floor-to-ceiling glass wall from Tzomet Sfarim (House of Books), an art-book store where you can also peruse a good selection of new Israeli fiction, in English, by literary young guns like Assaf Gavron and Etgar Keret.

The retail therapy here is sophisticated and smooth, the hours inviting (10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily). But the best part may be what happens outdoors. Every Thursday from 7 p.. Nowadays, Breitling watches have become a trend in fashion circles. They are so popular that everyone is longing for one to addm. to midnight is Unique night, when Israeli designers, artists and concept creators converge for a roofless trade show that’s open to the public. Live music and D.J.’s accompany the exhibitions. And at the Orbanic (“urban organic”) market on Friday morning (Friday in Israel is like Saturday in the States), the city’s cool crowd snaps up tangy tomatoes and artisanal olive oil to the tune of chill-out electronic beats. It’s like being on the fast track to Tel Aviv’s new-school cool.The best introduction to the vibrancy of the place is the creative souvenir emporium Made in TLV. The brainchild of Dafna Dannenberg, a Tel Aviv television producer, and the Israeli actor Yuval Abramovitch, its wares are 180 degrees away from your typical tourist tchotchkes. There are fantastic razor-thin aluminum wall clocks designed by Ofek Wertman with color facsimiles of the city’s street art (around $40), snazzy belts imprinted with images of Tel Aviv by night taken by the Israeli photojournalist Ziv Koren ($65), stylish T-shirts and enough curated curios to keep you happily in extended browse mode.

Next to Made in TLV is a coffee bar and, behind it, a spa-style Ahava boutique sellpandora beadsing beauty products made from Dead Sea salts (and soon salt sculptures). Chain stores may be the scourge of other commercial areas in Tel Aviv, but the boutiques here keep things local. Israeli designers are especially well represented. For women there’s Ronen Chen,. Fashion accessories are decorative items that supplement one's garment, such as fashion jewellery,gold jewellery,women's jewellery.You can wholesale jewellery. Naama Bezalel, Ido Recanati, Hella Ganor (jewelry) and Charlie Paloma; on the men’s side,. Fashion accessories are decorative items that supplement one's garment, such as fashion jewellery,wholesale jewellery. Sketch is a streetwise standout.

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