Ayala Serfaty is a contemporary artist and designer who marches to the beat of her own drum. Endeavoring to blur the line between practical furnishings and sculptural focal points, her armchairs, table lamps and wall lights are as dazzling in appearance as they are functional.
Ayala Serfaty was born in 1962 in Tel Aviv. She studied fine arts at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem before moving to London, where she attended Middlesex University. After graduation, she moved back to and chose to settle in Tel Aviv. She continued painting, sculpting and studying fine art until the 1990s when she also began designing furniture.
Ayala Serfaty told the Wall Street Journal that inspiration struck in 1996 while on a snorkeling vacation at the Red Sea. Upon returning to Tel Aviv, she established Aqua Creations Lighting and Furniture Atelier and took on the designer and creative director role. Today, she is also regularly collaborating with Maison Gerard in New York City.
Serfaty's unique and handcrafted approach to furniture design and production means that each piece is entirely one of a kind. Every sculptural creation draws from an eclectic well of ancient traditions and modern design sensibilities. It can take up to six months from concept to completion.
Serfaty is perhaps best known for her SOMA lighting collection. The ethereal lamps are made from woven glass, giving them the look of organically grown crystals in underwater caves. They have a fantastically tactile appeal, which is an attribute of many of her designs.
She has exhibited at the London Design Museum, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel, and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Her furniture has also been shown by Maison Gerard at the 2016 Winter Antiques Show and the 2021 Salon Art + Design. Her work is held in the collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
On 1stDibs, find Ayala Serfaty seating, lighting, decorative objects and more.
Ayala Serfaty, Janus, Patinated Bronze Side Table, Israel, 2025
By Ayala Serfaty
Located in New York, NY
Lava is the manifestation of Alaya Serfaty's ongoing research into cellular structure and organic abstraction. She creates affinity to natural phenomenon enabling a wide range of ref...
Bronze
Ayala Serfaty, Janus, Patinated Bronze Coffee Table, Israel, 2023
By Ayala Serfaty
Located in New York, NY
Named for the two-faced Roman god of time, beginnings, transitions, and endings, Janus is the manifestation of the designer's ongoing research into cellular structure and organic abs...
Bronze
Ayala Serfaty, Masha, Janus Series, Patinated Bronze Coffee Table, Israel, 2023
By Ayala Serfaty
Located in New York, NY
Masha is part of Serfaty's new Janus Series. Named for the two-faced Roman god of time, beginnings, transitions, and endings, Janus is the manifestation of the designer's ongoing res...
Bronze
Ayala Serfaty, Ash, Patinated Bronze Side Table, Israel, 2024
By Ayala Serfaty
Located in New York, NY
Ash is the manifestation of the designer's ongoing research into cellular structure and organic abstraction. She creates affinity to natural phenomenon enabling a wide range of refle...
Bronze
Tresor Patinated Set of 3 Coffee Table
Located in Paris, FR
Coffee table Tresor Patinated set of 3 with all structure of each table in solid brass in polished and patinated finish. With gloss varnished. Measures: Big/ Diameter 130 x H 30cm. M...
Brass
$2,815 / item
H 23.63 in Dm 19.3 in
Nature inspired acrylic patinated cast brass Alentejo side table by InsidherLand
By InsidherLand, Joana Santos Barbosa
Located in Maia, Porto
Alentejo side table is a glimpse over the South of Portugal where thousands of cork oaks trees raise their canopies to the sky. Resembling the typ...
Brass
$2,200 / set
H 19.3 in Dm 11.82 in
Handcrafted Modernist Side Tables, SUM Furniture, White Ash, England
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully hand-turned and handcrafted in solid English ash, these side tables are a sculptural study in form, texture, and material. Designed and made by our craftsman in England, ...
Ash
Sculpted Steel Patinated Coffee Table
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large sculpted steel metal and glass coffee table constructed of six saber form legs joined by 2" thick flat bar box stretchers. The table is topped with recta...
Metal
Mers Side Table in Satin Bronze
By Henry Norris, New Format Studio
Located in Vancouver, BC
The Mers side table is fabricated from solid bronze and is suitable for use indoors and out. Form is inspired by the simple utilitarianism of West Coast aluminum fishing boats. Sh...
Bronze
Milo Baughman for Directional Ash Burl Drum Form End / Side Table
By Milo Baughman
Located in Queens, NY
American Mid-Century drum form end / side table with an ash burl wood veneer. (MILO BAUGHMAN FOR DIRECTIONAL FURNITURE COMPANY)
Wood, Ash, Burl
Philip & Kelvin Laverne Patinated Bronze Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Rectangular coffee table by Philip and Kelvin Laverne Beautiful finish on the top surface This table is rare because there is no image ontop signed.
Bronze
Edward Wormley for Dunbar Janus Coffee Table
By Edward Wormley
Located in New York, NY
Edward Wormley for Dunbar Janus coffee table. The table is walnut with a geometric shape and the centre has five, round, Tiffany Studios glas...
Walnut, Glass
$3,600 / item
H 18.5 in W 9 in D 9 in
Glass Block' Side Table in Patinated Bronze with Faceted Legs, Made to Order
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A WYETH Original, framed glass block cocktail / side table on faceted legs with forged feet in patinated bronze.
Bronze
Handcrafted Large White Ash Side Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully hand-turned and handcrafted in solid English ash, this larger side table is a sculptural study in form, texture, and material. Designed and made by our craftsman in Engla...
Ash
$6,111
H 16.15 in W 38.98 in D 38.98 in
Antique Malachite and Walnut Patinated Bronze Coffee Table 20th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful Empire revival malachite-and-walnut, patinated bronze-decorated, and parcel-gilt coffee table, early 20th Century in date. The table with a striking circular qua...
Malachite
Patinated Hexagonal Steel Modern Side Table by Costantini, Ettore Hex
By Costantini
Located in New York, NY
Ettore Hex's name comes from its hexagonal shape and can be specified in any of Costantini’s available materials and finishes. Shown here in patinated steel, this side table feature...
Brass, Steel
Ayala Serfaty, Ash, Patinated Bronze Side Table, Israel, 2024
By Ayala Serfaty
Located in New York, NY
Ash is the manifestation of the designer's ongoing research into cellular structure and organic abstraction. She creates affinity to natural phenomenon enabling a wide range of refle...
Bronze
Ayala Serfaty, Janus, Patinated Bronze Coffee Table, Israel, 2023
By Ayala Serfaty
Located in New York, NY
Named for the two-faced Roman god of time, beginnings, transitions, and endings, Janus is the manifestation of the designer's ongoing research into cellular structure and organic abs...
Bronze