Art decorates the house

The old house of 150 years on the beach Patricia Gelman is also a community room, studio, classroom and gallery. The artist, born in Paris uses his extensive home renovation and exposure to flea market finds from all over the world to teach in gold leaf and silver leaf and technology to host exhibitions of six months from other local artists. This blend of creativity, education, community, and travel ready within a complex style, yet colorful. View of the house that lives there: Patricia Gelman and your dogs Robine and Persefal
Location: Ajami in Jaffa, Israel
Size: 300 square meters; 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, plus 2 studios and a gallery
What's interesting: the local film production and fashion photographers have used this house as a stage of their work. The center of the house, built 150 years ago, is in this room and in the courtyard. His father played in this wing. This is the only piece that Gelman your childhood home in Paris. The floor tiles were there originally. The memories of his travels and discoveries flea market is an important part of the decor. Gelman recently learned that the house was once a synagogue, and was inhabited at times artisans. You get the feeling that the house was originally designed as a studio. In the living room next to the entrance are an Asian screen and a couple of chairs, covered with a cloth pressed by Gelman. Exposure

The artwork on the buffet is one of their works, which is a print on acrylic with feathers behind

It can be enlarged to the size of a popular poster display board. The chairs with painted legs of a flea market. A local craftsman made ​​the shelf
The room next to the lounge Gelman has a bathroom overlooking the central courtyard. She restored the original door and regained their original appearance. The shelf in the corner is also a piece of flea market and renovated with silver leaf. A copy of a painting by French artist Gustave Caillebotte weighs on the bed Two additional bedrooms, it has turned into art studios, which also serve as classrooms. A third bedroom serves as a gallery for their latest songs. Rooms: The Ikea lounge skimmed the views of beach near Jaffa Gelman acrylic the "canvas" for the deep texture painted twice – a technique with which they have experienced in recent times. This is the view from the living room window
Gelman loves the beach and the Promenade, where she takes her two dogs for a walk often. This renovated buffet in the living room is one of the artistic projects Gelman The open door leads to the Gelman Gallery, which hosts art exhibitions twice a year
An event was held here recently,. A painter, designer, photographer and lecturer on art and philosophy Artist donors of iron sculpture Udi Dayan, the son of former Foreign Minister and Defense Moshe Dayan, and photographer Gilli Schwartz also organized exhibitions Gelman. The eclectic furniture in the gallery includes an acrylic painted modern chair, chair of the 15th century, a painting in the Baroque style, and other parts of Austria. Light pours through the court and in the beautiful arched windows with original details like clover. In this mild climate Gelman can hold the door and window Gelman uses the sink to wash the paint brush She loves her food in the courtyard of a vintage table that remained of the former owners – the door leads to the main living room I never thought I would live in such a beautiful space, said Gelman, taken at the entrance