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Hand-carved stone walls of a luxury desert restaurant interior built by Shidrah Studio in the Negev
Shidrah, the spine and backbone of a space. Hand, scale, meaning.

Singular spaces,
built by one hand.

At the scale of architecture · the precision of art

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One studio where the art, the material, and the structure are the same hand.

Selected Work · Institutional

The Cathedra for Ethiopian Jewry

Ono Academic College · Sculpted interior & heritage content · Nearing completion

A permanent home for the International Cathedra for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry, and the studio's largest heritage commission to date. Sculpted walls, lit niches, artefact vitrines and a full documentary wall, built as one continuous room rather than a set of displays. It is the first time an academic institution has commissioned this work as material to be studied rather than decoration.

Wide view of the International Cathedra for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry at Ono Academic College, sculpted documentation wall and artefact vitrine, built by Shidrah Studio
Glass vitrine of Ethiopian Jewish artefacts set against the sculpted green documentation wall
Panels on the Kingdom of Kush and Aksum beneath sculpted foliage
The Ancient Roots panel framed by hanging greenery
The Beta Israel panel seen through foliage in the cathedra hall
A sculpted lit niche carved into the dark wall of the cathedra
Scroll-form panel with a traditional broom and archival photographs
Ethiopian pottery in a glass case against the painted green landscape
Traditional Ethiopian string instruments mounted on a hand-finished ochre wall
Documentation panels on the hand-finished ochre wall of the cathedra

Sculpted plaster, painted landscape, and archival content, worked into one room.

Selected Work · Structural Interiors

The Sculpted Restaurant

Negev, Israel · Hand-built concrete & carved stone · Wood-bending

A luxury dining room where the walls are not clad; they are carved. Every surface is made by hand: sculpted concrete, bent wood, stone worked into a single continuous atmosphere. Nothing here is bought off a shelf.

Carved stone feature wall lit by candlelight in the Negev luxury restaurant by Shidrah Studio

Concrete, stone, and wood, worked entirely by hand into one space.

Selected Work · Murals at Architectural Scale

The World-Record Mural

Guinness World Record · 2,038 m² · Spray-painted by a single artist

Before the studio built rooms, it painted at the scale of buildings. Avi Tal holds the Guinness World Record for the largest spray-painted mural by a single artist: 2,038 square metres by one hand. Large-scale murals and painted facades remain part of the studio's practice, in Israel and internationally.

Guinness World Records certificate awarded to Avi Tal for the largest spray paint mural by one artist, 2,038.96 m², Dimona, Israel, 1 March 2016
Guinness World Records · 2,038.96 m² · Dimona, Israel · 1 March 2016
The Hand Behind the Studio

Shidrah is led by Avi Tal.

Known in the art world as Spine B7, he has spent nearly two decades where fine art, architecture, and raw material meet. The street taught him scale. A decade at the Aviation Club of Israel and a Technion program in aerodynamics and structural integrity taught him how to make it stand.

His father was born in Ismail, Ukraine (Ізмаїл — a city in southern Ukraine on the Danube River) and moved to Ternopil as a young child.

That is why a Shidrah space is not decorated. It is built as a single work of art the size of a building: sculpted, structural, and made to last. He knows what a surface does over twenty years of weather.

Every line is drawn directly on the wall. No projectors, no stock imagery, no scaled prints, no vinyl.

He set the Guinness World Record for the largest spray-painted mural by a single artist: 2,038 m².

Museum-quality bronze sculpted faces from a Shidrah Studio Ethiopian Jewish heritage room
In Progress · The Stone Bar

Carved, not clad.

Negev, Israel · Hand-sculpted stone · Nearing completion
The stone bar room, two hand-sculpted counters lit from beneath under woven pendant lamps, Shidrah Studio
Full face of the hand-sculpted stone bar counter lit from the top edge, Shidrah Studio
Hand-sculpted stone bar counter with under-lighting and woven pendant lamps, Shidrah Studio
Woven pendant lamps above the sculpted stone bar counter in low light, Shidrah Studio

Two counters worked from one surface, lit from beneath.

The Studio

One vision. The hands that build it.

A single artistic mind, executed by a dedicated team across Israel and the United States.

Avi Tal
Founder & Artist
Spine B7
Alex Katzenelson
Producer
Amram Aklum
Heritage Content Expert
Beta Israel
Sigalit Menashe
Sales Manager · Israel
Ralph Tal
Project Manager · USA
What the Studio Builds
Carved stone and bent wood in the sculpted Negev restaurant

Structural Interiors

Complete private and hospitality spaces, sculpted by hand at architectural scale.

Carved relief with copper Hebrew lettering from an Ethiopian Jewish heritage room

Heritage & Memorial Rooms

Museum-grade installations that hold memory, including the national Ethiopian Jewish heritage rooms.

By Request

If your space demands to be singular, tell us about it.

The studio takes on a limited number of projects each year. Write about the space and the vision. No spec sheet needed, a first conversation is enough.

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