ZAHARA SCHATZ (1916 - 1999) was an Israeli artist and designer who happened to be the daughter of Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design founder Boris Schatz.

After earning her degree from L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris (as well as attending classes at L'Académie de la Grande Chaumière), Schatz moved to California and married American sculptor Elliott Franz Sandow (1910–1976). In the 1940s, Schatz taught art classes at the California Labor School in Berkeley and began designing and building acrylic lamps.

Schatz was part of the Big Sur artists'/writers' colony that included San Francisco sculptor Benny Bufano, author Henry Miller, her sister-in-law Louise Schatz, and her brother Bezalel Schatz.

Her work was exhibited internationally in shows such as the Venice Biennale and the Milan Triennale. In 1951, she received an honorable mention for her Table Lamp Model No. T-4-S design at MoMA’s New Lamps exhibition, which was later manufactured by the Heifez Company.

(Source: Leland Little Auctions; Image Credit: MoMA)