EXPERIENCE

Head to the Bauhaus Centre Tel Aviv and book the two-hour walking tour of the White City, an UNESCO World Heritage-listed site so named after the 4000 blanched Modernist buildings designed by the German-Jewish architects who fled the Berlin-based Bauhaus school before Hitler shut it down in 1933. It stands as an extraordinary regional tribute to the International Style. bauhaus-center.com

The Design Museum Holon is a 20-minute drive out of Tel Aviv that’s well worth a look. Housed in rust-coloured steel swoops of Ron Arad architecture, it is both an educational resource and an edgy exhibition platform premised on elevating creative industries in Israeli culture. The museum is currently playing host to a major overview of Maarten Baas’s prodigious body of work in the survey show, Hide & Seek, until 27 April. dmh.org.il

Found in the super-arty heart of ancient Jaffa, Saga is a happy hybrid of shop, gallery, cafe, studio space and artists’ residence, all given to the promotion of local talent. Pick up a piece of unique Israeli design (five major institutions are committed to the nation’s pursuit to keep standards high) or some fabulous vintage finds (the Bauhaus bent of White City means wonders abound). A further eight-minute walk will reward with plenty of Dead Sea pampering products on offer at Ahava. sagatlv.com

Elemento is an interior design studio owned by leading Tel Aviv-based designer Yossy Goldberg, who flies the flag for regionalism with one-ofa-kind luxury furnishings that lean towards the 1960s and ’70s. Shop the showroom for local lighting and accessories. elemento-design.com