Neta Ben-Bassat is a jewelry and objects designer, with B.F.A from Bezalel Academy of art and design, a M.Des from Shenkar college of design and engineering, and an independent brand-owner silversmith.

Neta inherited the passion for craftwork from her mother, an architect, painter, and ceramist with visual impairment, and chose the goldsmith’s table as her field, following her aunt and great-grandfather. From these roots, Neta built her designer identity as someone who seeks to turn accessibility into a lifestyle. In her works, she intervenes in the space between the object and the person. The shape, the materials, and the way an object is created are a way to approach the human soul in elegant harmony with maximum impact. Neta isolates the fixed laws of the movement characteristics of the person and the object and creates new fragments, which reveal tangent points where inseparable relationships of movement and emotion are created.

Disability, whether direct or indirect, affects the individual's attitude toward the outside world. Living next to a person with a disability led her to the understanding that her works should refer to hidden areas and try to stimulate a common conversation around one object, considering the vast variety of audiences.

From the goldsmith's table a whole life emerges. I create within its limits, combine, disassemble, and repeat the same actions repeatedly. At the end of the process, when I look at the table, a new being looks back at me. We have an understanding.

The best effect of an object on a person is created when the object fits the same hand that picked it. The 3D technology I work with allows me to create a perfect match while taking into account physical mobility, while at the same time - classic handwork helps to express the freedom and naturalness of the material. Connecting the worlds of 3D printing and traditional goldsmithing is at the core of my work. Technologies will progress over the years and as a designer, I must know how to work alongside them.

I create objects that can be carried. They are full of statements and identities that the wearer wants to project and act as a tool for belonging. By challenging the concept of movability, I reveal a clumsy simplicity, a humor that echoes the vulnerability and abnormalities of all of us, and thus actually connects us.

I look down at the goldsmith’s table, a new being looks back at me, we have an understanding.