Daniella Ohad

 When I have first met philanthropist and collector George Kravis II at the posh home of his curator and friend David Hanks across from MoMA’s Sculptures Garden, I was so impressed by his passion and philosophy of collecting and gifting, that I published our conversation in Arude Magazine. Now, the Copper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum […]

When Dr. Edith Farnsworth first met famed architect Mies van der Rohe at a dinner party in Chicago in November of 1945, she immediately asked him to recommend an architect to design a weekend house on a plot she owned in Plno, outside of Chicago. She would not have expected that Mies himself would eventually

Rarely do we experience these days, evenings, or moments that we know would be cherished forever, those decisive, pivotal moments that would become hallmarks in our autobiography. I had one of them last evening, when I had the honor to moderate a talk with my father’s first cousin, Winchester-based renowned historian Edgar Feuchtwanger at the

Even if one doesn’t agree that Louis Kahn (1901-74) was the best architect of the mid-century years, one cannot disagree that the American architect has been the most admired by architects worldwide, the most influential. There is no better museum in the US to present a retrospective of Kahn’s triumphant career other than the Kimbell

It is definitely the moment for British designer Faye Toogood (born 1977), who was one of the recipients of the 2016 Collab Awards by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, currently participates in the Museum’s exhibition ‘Design Currents,’ which comes to honor contemporary designers with a strong connection to their own national heritage, and now, will

Let’s celebrate with Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha who is the recipient of the prestigious 2017 Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). A great contributor to the architectural fabric of Brazil, he has practiced the type of Brutalism, powerful, massive, raw, passionate, abstract, chunky, that came to shape much

New Canaan had become a cradle of American modernist architecture during the mid-century years. Who didn’t build in this lush New England town? Eliot Noyes, Willis N. Mills, just to name two; Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer not only designed homes, but also made New Canaan their own home; Frank Lloyd Wright, too. Now the

 When we think of Juicy Salif, the lemon squeezer which Philippe Starck designed for Alessi in 1990, we think of a cultural icon. Between 1990 and 2003, more than half a million of them were sold by the Italian company, despite the fact that they barely function as a lemon squeezers. Perhaps this is why

Oleg Cassini  (1913–2006), the American fashion designer had an amazingly successful career which included creating costumes for Paramount Pictures and a legendary collection for Lord & Taylor. But he has been particularly known as the personal designer for Jacqueline Kennedy whilst she was First Lady of the United States. In fact, Cassini is responsible for

While my lecture on Space Age design this week will focus on the luxurious furniture and objects, fashion, and accessories which French artists and designers created of stainless steel and other futuristic materials during the 60s and 70s, known also as the golden age of futuristic design, when it comes to architecture, I would like