DROR BENSHETRIT WORKS FROM THE HEART

‘I get the ideas for my designs from physics, from movement, from observing people’s natural behaviour, from fashion and from my heart,’ Tel Aviv-born and now New York-based designer Dror Benshetrit says. His latest conception, QuaDror, has it all: a spectacular simple geometric structure that can be the base for everything from furniture designs and easy-to-build housing for the homeless.

‘I have no interest in adding another ordinary object to the market,’ says Benshetrit, who was educated at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. That’s why he offered the world, among other designs, his beautiful geometrically structured Peacock Chair, designed for Cappellini. Other clients include Alessi, Bentley, Bombay Sapphire, Levi’s, Marithé + François Girbaud, Puma, Rosenthal, Skins Footwear and Swarovski.

In collaboration with a team of experts, Dror conducts thorough research, focusing on materials, technology and geometry. The latest fruit of this research is QuaDror, an elegant structural principle that is lighter yet stronger than traditional structures. QuaDror can be used to build decorative walls as quickly as relief structures in disaster areas.