Daniella Ohad

I am pleased and honored, to announce the upcoming program: “Sebastián Errazuriz: Monologues in the Artist’s Studio, A screening and lecture/artist talk,” which I will moderate on November 1st, at the New York School of Interior Design. With his own conceptual, comprehensive, and genuine body of work, Chilean-born, Brooklyn-based artist/designer Sebastian Errazuriz has come to […]

When I posted an image with mid-century industrial design George Nelson (1908-86) with the Bubble Lamps he designed for Herman Miller, it got a sensational attention. Because these iconic lamps have become among the most beloved objects of American design. First designed in 1947, itself an important year at Herman Miller, where Nelson served as

Fiat 500 has been known as the symbol of Italian chic and style and of mass car ownership, almost from the time it was first created in the 50s. What is it about Fiat’s best-loved car in the company’s history, which celebrates its 60th birthday today (!) that made MoMA’s curators acquiring it for its

Yesterday I wrote here about Wendell Castle’s new exhibition, and today a post about the man who was famously one of the most talented students of Castle’s during his tenure at Rochester Institute of Technology. I was thrilled to host designer/maker David N. Ebner as a guest speaker in a class devoted to his own

We all remember well the Floating Piers on Lake Iseo in Italy, which Christo and Jeanne-Claude unveiled last June, an enormous pier covered with fabric and transformed the lake while uplifting our spirits. This event has become the point of departure for an exhibition held at the 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo, entitled “Grand Projects:

What I find mostly breathtaking about Wendell Castle, beyond his superb talent and unparalleled control over his discipline, beyond his sweetest personality and genuine, real character, is the way he has never repeated himself, always inventing, always renewing, never going back, but departing over and over again, each chapter is built upon the previous, each comes

Design and travel magazines in print, we know, have been facing monumental challenges with the introduction of the digital publishing industry, and with readers seeking free contents. Yet, the printed design magazine has been in the process of reinventing itself, and its publishers are constantly in search for the new mold which will bring it

It has been long, too long, since we have seen an exhibition devoted to Gio Ponti (1891-1979), often referred to as the Dean of Italian Design, a Renaissance man who drew from the Italian past in creating the modern and the future. At times, it seems that Ponti’s strong presence in the marketplace has overshadowed any

So many before him had tried to create one-piece plastic chair, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, just to name two, but it was Verner Panton, the Basel-based Danish designer who was the first to succeed. After nine years of experimentation, his stacking, cantilever Panton Chair was finally unveiled in 1967, just in the right moment

Let’s celebrate Charles Eames birthday. The most charismatic figure of the American design of the mid-century years was born on June 17, 1907. Forging a lifelong partnership with his wife Ray – he was an architect by training and she was a painter and sculptor – the two came to forge a spectacular career as