Daniella Ohad

The film Collecting Paul Evans is a part of an ongoing series on collecting design, which is produced in conjunction with a program I teach at the New York School of Interior Design “Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights.” It comes to tell the story of a radical metalsmith who created new and provocative type furniture […]

I could not have thought of a better way to train my students’ eye in recognizing good design, and to expose them to design which would elevate their taste than visiting the new exhibition of Xavier Lust at Ralph Pucci International. The Brussels-based designer, known as the master of bent metal has created new pieces

Spending this morning at the 19th-century Chelsea townhouse, which artist Louise Bourgeois called ‘home’ for nearly half a century was a magical experience. A nonprofit organization, the Easton Foundation, which the artist set up in the 1980s, has opened the house to small arts-related groups, and I was fortunate to be able to tour it

Congratulating Deborah Berke Partners, recipient of the 2017 National Design Award for Interior Design, announced this week and honored on October 19th at the Copper Hewitt. The Award, given to American designers in various fields, comes to highlight the best of American design and to shape our understanding of the contribution of Americans to contemporary

Loved meeting Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard, the duo leading exponents of British 21st-century design at a dinner party held by their dealer David Gill in New York. I was first introduced to the work of Fredrikson Stallard at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where two of their pieces were on display as a part

Joseph Walsh is a master maker and designer of an international acclaim, who works in West Cork Ireland where he founded his studio in 1999 in his family farm. He has formulated a unique and personal language, based on poetic sensibility and on the art of bending and manipulating local timbers, to which he has

Visiting Friedman Benda this morning was the highlight of this week. One of the world’s leading and pioneering design galleries, it celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exhibition entitled ‘dna10,’ which comes to summarize the DNA of the gallery. Having representations of two dozens designers active between the 20th century and the present, capturing its

I cannot think of a better way to spend the morning on the First Monday in May then visiting the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, which always marks a special moment in the study, documentation, and experience of the art of fashion. This time, the exhibition “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between” comes to

The first event with which I traditionally open NYCxDESIGN, the design season in NY is the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, which takes place this year at a stunning red brick mansion house, built at the turn of the 20th century on East 65th Street, and which had served as the home of the China

If you have not heard the name of late architect and designer Ali Tayar, who died last year, and whose oeuvre is at the center of a solo exhibition Ali Tayar: Systems & One-Offs at R & Company, you are not alone. Because despite the fact that he was extremely talented, deeply conversant with the