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Fruit and vegetable designer home deco May is the month of bountiful spring-season harvests. Here are five Israeli designers who create beautiful objects for the home inspired by the fruits of the earth \ By Adi Fogel Hollander

Photo: courtesy of Tal Amitai-Lavi

Watermelon sculptures Tal Amitai-Lavi

A multidisciplinary artist, Amitai Lavi draws, paints, sculpts, and creates installations. One of her most impressive works, “A room with a heartbeat”, is currently being shown at the Ramat HaSharon Contemporary Art Gallery (until August 15 th ). In 2017 she presented her installation “Green on the outside, red on the inside”, a series of 30 fiberglass watermelons randomly placed on the floor. Visitors could walk between them as though they were in a watermelon field, like the humoristic Israeli equivalent of pumpkins growing in fields, ready to be carved for Halloween. Amitai Lavi’s watermelons are made of hardened fiberglass, painted with automotive paint and covered in UV varnish to maintain durability. Fully weatherproof, they’re a fun and colorful addition to any space, indoors or out. Price: NIS 17,000 for a 46 cm sized watermelon (can be ordered in other dimensions: 35 cm, 46 cm, or 50 cm) tal_amitai_lavi

Ori Saidi and Daniel Gassner founded OTOTO together, one of the most successful Israeli design brands in the world. OTOTO products are functional household items with a witty and unexpected twist to them. Their “Mon cherry” cherry shaped measuring spoons with egg separator leaf, are a perfect example of this. Made in collaboration with industrial designer Jenny Pokryvailo, Cherry-shaped measuring spoons OTOTO Photos: Dan Lev

show where the socialite is seen to be using them with her pal Kim Kardashian. Price: NIS 65 (available online via ototodesign.com, amazon.com, and in Soho stores across the Israel) ototodesign

the “Mon Cherry” spoons were featured in Paris Hilton’s Netflix

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