Daniella Ohad

When you think of porcelain, you probably think of bone china, or delicate tableware of the type used in fancy dinners; or you may think of an antique blue-and-white ware from China, where porcelain was first developed 2,000 years ago, and from which it had spread to East Asia. But when we entered the Eindhoven-based […]

I was first introduced to the sculptural, chic furniture in metal and wood by French designer/architect François Thévenin (1901-2016), at Primavera Gallery, and was immediately intrigued by the French flavor of his language, by the superb craftsmanship, and by the signature style that attains his pieces with lightness, airiness, and expressiveness. Active in the French

The term ‘atelier,’ studio of a professional artist, painter, sculptor, where the principal master and his assistants and apprentices create together, was coined during the Middle Ages, when the system of art education and training was enforced by the guilds. Think about this core idea of the atelier and you can imagine the monumental building

We have concluded the successful and super fascinating Dutch Design Tour in Brussels, where we first have stopped at new and stunning studio of Belgian designer Xavier Lust, situated in a modernist building in Ixelles, Brussels 19. Lust, whose new pieces will be launched by Ralph Pucci in May, has made sheet metal his principal material

I regularly meet Saskia Copper and Aad Krol, founders of Rotterdam-based Galerie VIVID at Design Miami/, the semi-annual fair, where they have been known for presenting the best of the best of Dutch design. The duo whose gallery was one of the world’s first to specialize in collectible contemporary design, founded in 1999, are known

Archipedia is an encyclopedia of architecture by the Society of Architectural Historian, a remarkable organization to which I am proudly belong. It is a great source on American architecture, indexed state by state, to which the architecture survey of the state of Wisconsin has been added, with 774 entries that come to provide a comprehensive

The most substantial, ambitious, and accomplished aspect of the work of Dutch designer/artist Aldo Bakker is the perfection of beauty. This is what we have learnt this morning, when hosted at his humble studio at the center of Amsterdam. Here, the son of legendary designer and co-founded of Droog Design Gijs Bakker, creates the most

​Dutch designer Pieke Bergmans is so successful in designing processes that then result in objects, that those processes really making you think differently about design. The objects are energetic, dynamic, dramatic, and full of humor, just like Bergmans herself, perfectly capturing her own personality and identity. Visiting her studio was both memorable and fascinating, because

Everything about Dutch designer Frederik Molenschot is monumental, larger than life. His studio in Amsterdam, in which we were hosted as a part of the current Dutch Design Tour which I am leading this week; his light installations and sculptures; his appearance; his personality; his imagination; his vision that reaches the horizon; his heart. A

I was first introduced to the work of Wieki Somers Studio when Galerie Kreo exhibited a series of standing lamps in 2013, all inspired by motifs and codes of honor from the Japanese Samurai culture (below). Combined of traditional crafts and various innovative and intriguing materials, from fabrics dipped in resin, through intricate metal mesh