Daniella Ohad

Even if you don’t know that co-curator Christopher Wilk has devoted years to creating he exhibition Plywood: Material of the Modern World, you immediately sense that your visit at the V&A is an extraordinary experience. In fact, this small, jeweled exhibition can be utilized as a case study on how to create a great show […]

The exhibition ‘Breathing Color’ at the Design Museum makes you think differently about color, leads you to understand that color is way more complex than we tend to think of it, and ultimately brings you to fall in love with color. Not with specific color, blue, or red, or pink, but rather with the way

The name of famed American Pulitzer-Prize winner playwright Edward Franklin Albee (1928-2016) is known for his plays that examine modern conditions, such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). Now, that his www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2017/collection-edward-albee-n09678.htmlentire collection is offered by Sotheby’s for the benefit The Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk, we can get a

The SS Normandie is remembered now only for its remarkable design, but also for its extraordinarily elegance and the global touristic experience that it offered. It had it all. Not only was it the largest, heaviest, and fastest, but also the most celebrated ocean liner of the Jazz Age – a floating magnificent palace with

When you drive east 57th Street from the West Side Highway, you can see it. A futuristic, triangular, metallic low-rise building encircling a courtyard, that spans the entire block, and looks as if it came from a utopian drawing of a German Expressionist visionary in the 20s, a high-tech pyramid. Via 57 West is a

There are dozens building projects and conversations in NYC, but this one has captured my interest from the first moment. Called ‘Cast Iron House,’ this late nineteen-century building, located in Tribeca, has been converted to condominiums by Pritzker Prize winner, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. With its neoclassical, ornate facade, it represents the best of New

The Design Museum in London has published its anticipated list for the tenth anniversary of its annual exhibition and awards, named after the insurance company Beazley. Comprises 62 nominations, it spreads across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport. Selected by a panel of distinguished international designers, curators and creatives, the awards showcase

The prestigious and wonderful Historic Houses Association (HHA) Restoration Award for 2017, sponsored by Sotheby’s, was awarded to Glynde Place in East Sussex. It comes to recognize the dedication of owners to the care and sympathetic restoration of the historic buildings that they own, inhabit, and share with the public. Glynde Place has been owned

‘What’s My Line?’ was a game show produced by CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967. It required panelists to question a contestant in order to determine his or her identity and occupation. Here is the episode of June 3, 1967, when the guest was American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 89 year old at the

I was first introduced to the furniture in welded American currency by Vermont-based Johnny Swing when the memorable design collection of event designer Robert Isabell was offered for sale at Sotheby’s in 2009. It has since become a blue chip accessory, included in the old Four Seasons Restaurant, in Storm King Art Center, and Chatsworth