Sigal Caspin-Segal is what you get when you mix Indian artwork and mythology with science fiction / fantasy and add a dash of shanti (Israeli hippy). She lives up the street from me, and a friend of the family designed her amazing house. I love homes like this – individual with little niches and details that tell you about the people who inhabit the space.
There are a lot of photographs from this space (there was just so much to see!) so I’ll be making more posts. More rather long posts.
Ze’ev (the architect) took an old amidar home and expanded it to 2 floors.
The window, above, is above her front door.
Sigal’s home has been featured in Israeli magazines (no clue which ones, didn’t ask, and don’t care). What I found interesting about that was that the magazines brought props to stage the space and they cleaned the areas that they photographed. Apparently they even brought some twigs in a vase.
The hallway between the living room and kitchen – that isn’t a mirror – it’s a view to the kitchen from the salon.
The arch is a common theme in Sigal’s home. The kitchen was designed with simplicity and budget in mind. They would rather spend their money travelling than on kitchen doors, so they made the ‘cabinets’ out of gypsum and put curtains in front.
And just so you know, I neither cleaned nor moved anything.
The arch set into the wall above her back patio doors. The painting is all done by Sigal, conveniently.
There were a few things I really loved about this house:
- The arches
- The floor – they kept the old ‘ballatot‘ (the old speckled marble flooring which has a proper name but I got home at 2:30am from a wedding and was woken up by a 2.5 year old at 6am – so you know what? I haven’t a clue what that proper name is right now)
- There are niches in the wall, and small cozy spaces throughout the house
- The art and color
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the flooring is called terazzo.
this is a great house! i love all those unique details and unexpected nooks and crannies. funny how the magazine(s) cleaned and “staged” her house… one of the things that annoy me about shelter mags is the fact they erase all traces of human habitation from the homes they feature. they are absolutely spotless, even the ones where they specifically mention that children live there as well (even my friends who have full-time live-in help don’t have houses that tidy!) it’s like the equivalent of fashion magazines use of anorexic models!
TERAZZO!!! Oysh, thank you!
The fantastic thing is that they kept the original and then bought new in the same size for the rest of the house. It looks positively brilliant. Seriously. It looks so good I’m annoyed that we covered ours with regular granite porceline tiles.
you know, we go back and forth about what to do about ours. on one hand, it sort of makes the house look cluttered to me because it’s so busy. on the other, i’m seeing it featured more and more and not just here in israel, so maybe i have a diamond-in-the-rough. maybe i’ll just have someone come in and do a professional “polish” and see what it looks like afterwards.
HELLO SHIRA
I see the pictures for the first time (:
it looks so natural and “as it is”
i love it
i can actually recognize my home
not like the pics in the magazine
great work
great website
keep on
and of course u r allways wellcome to see whats new ((::
Hi Sigal,
It was my pleasure – you’re home is fantastic.
You can always come down the street for coffee as well 🙂
-s