I just returned from some time exploring the modernism of Tel Aviv. I roamed around taking pictures of some of the 4,000 Bauhaus buildings in the “White City,” finally checked out the small but interesting Bauhaus Museum and toured the new and old buildings of the Tel Aviv  Museum of Art. Check out the images below: Some of [...]

Just a quick post from Tel Aviv. I wanted to make sure everyone saw this Baltimore Sun profile on Modern Capital sponsor Home Anthology. The nice piece describes how owners Nini Sarmiento and Rob Degenhard went from buying mid-century modern furniture to furnish their own home to running their vintage furniture business out of a [...]

Here’s a little more from my recent trip to Israel. The signature architectural site along the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv is the colorful facade of the Dan Tel Aviv, which opened in 1953 as the young country’s first luxury hotel. Designed by architect Heinz Fenchal, the mid-century modern hotel was the “hotel of choice [...]

Tel Aviv—The rise of the new city of Tel Aviv and the Bauhaus school in Germany was an extraordinary confluence of events in the early years of the 20th century. Jews fleeing Europe seeking a new start and break from the past underpinned by a socialistic fervor. A school of architectural thought promoting new building [...]