A home that is lived in out loud

Roni Daloomi is a singer and actress, and her Tel Aviv home looks like her: sheer curtains that let the light through, plants on the balcony, a keyboard by the window with a stool for practice, a kitchen with a pink banquette and a black island. Nothing in it is formal. Art for a home like this cannot be solemn, and it cannot be decoration either. It has to have the same energy as the person.

What I was looking for

Works that match her optimism without turning the apartment into a gallery. Joyful, light on their feet, minimal enough to leave the rooms breathing, and immediate enough to be understood without a wall text. Nothing heavy, nothing that needs explaining to a guest.

The three works

Three artworks by two contemporary Israeli artists. Two of them share a language: tiny figures scattered across a pale, almost empty ground, sunbathers and swimmers seen from above, and one of them hangs beside the keyboard where she practices. The third, near the kitchen, is the opposite in density: a building facade broken into bright patches of color, all geometry and sun. Together they are what I call visual candy: sweet, immediate, impossible to walk past without smiling. They reflect her, which is the whole point of putting art in a home.

How it came together

A conversation about who she is and how she lives, then a short list of artists whose work carries that lightness. I make the final choice in the home itself, where the light does the last edit, and that is true on every project. Framing and installation followed, with each work placed where it is seen every day rather than saved for guests. That is the order I work in on every home: person first, then artist, then wall.

If you want art that sounds like you rather than like a showroom, write to me at Stav@stavtheodor.com or use the contact form. Read how the art advisory process works, or see two very different homes near Tel Aviv: a commission inspired by Shtisel and a villa in Hod Hasharon.