Tor
Rothschild Neria

Tor Rothschild Neria is a Fine Art Furniture Designer, resurrecting artisan techniques of the past to document the changing British cliffscapes of the present and create work that will last for generations in the future.

Born into an artistic family in Galili, Israel, Tor grew up in his parents’ ceramics studio, before embarking on a variety of projects around the world.
 After graduating from Robinson House Studio in 2022, he is now represented by Objective Gallery in New York and has sold two pieces to a collector in Shanghai. Combining traditional and innovative approaches, he is pushing furniture into new areas, contributing to the scope of the field., working with leading designer Marc Fish on his Kasumi Uchi Series, he pioneered a technique that has never been used before.
Tor’s current project Ora (Latin for coast; prayer) is inspired by sailing around the British south coast. Depicting the topographical and temporal evolution of cliffs across time and place, it is a portrait of both permanence and precarity, documenting our ever-changing experience of, and impact on, the land. Ora is characterised by sharp horizon lines, dramatic ruptures, tactile textures and intimate inner spaces – hidden caves beneath flat surfaces; secret chambers in lamps; splintered fractures in shelves; and the illusion of a table, suspended mid-fall.
Each piece represents months of meticulous labour, sculpting thousands of layers of ethically-sourced wood and developing bespoke textural finishes. His practice is time and cost-intensive, requiring experimentation, specialist materials and R&D. Tor keeps developing his skills and expanding his vision to create handmade, heart-made, sustainable furniture, pushing the boundaries between furniture and fine art.