Daniella Ohad

​I had the pleasure of hosting Sarah D. Coffin, curator of the fantastic exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s at the Cooper Hewitt, in my class Collecting Design this morning. The twenties were characterized by an extraordinary production of original and glamour design in America as I suggested here last week. Some […]

Since the early 70s and throughout his career until he died in 1994, Minimalist artist Donald Judd was occupied with creating furniture, an extension of his art. Like his sculptures, the furniture has been characterized by superb proportions, reduction to pure, precise, geometric, hard-edged forms of rigid planes, made in industrial materials. When you visit

This year marks the centennial of two giants’ birth, both born in 1917, and both 100th birthday will be celebrated this season at the Met. While the two contributed to the foundation of 20th century art, they couldn’t have been more different. One was born to a Russian Jewish family in New Jersey, attended the

If handbags have become status symbols, cultural icons, and political markers of power, then Judith Leiber has a great role in attaining them with this charisma. At least in the United States. Her bags have a strong New York identity and can be found in many stylish wardrobes scattered in the city, not to mention

Visiting the new show The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, which will open at the Cooper Hewitt tomorrow, is like stepping into a dream world, the world of Great Gatsby, or Manhattan skyscrapers, glamour American in the eve of the Great Depression. You want to open the magnificent lacquered gates (made for the

We all know that origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. In recent years, the forms have been revisited and the term borrowed when referring to folding masses in architecture and design. It is when flat sheets of such materials as wood, stone, metal, and concrete are transformed through folding. Here are a

One of my favorite photography competitions, which presents stunning images of architecture, the Sony World Photography Awards has announced its winners of the 2017 open competition in the architecture category; unfortunately the Professional Section does not include a category for architecture. The top prize was awarded to British architect Tim Cornbill for his ‘Oculus,’ capturing

When you see her series of Totems in marble and in ceramics, which will be presented at the Milan Design Week next week, you’ll immediately know that Beirut-based designer Karen Chekerjian’s language is rooted in the Italian radical design movement of the 60s. It was as a student at the DOMUS Academy in Milan, that

In his new book ‘What’s so great about the Eiffel Tower?’ (published by Laurence King Publishing), architecture critic Jonathan Glancey takes the challenge of telling the history of architecture’s masterpieces through 70 examples, presenting them in a fresh, unusual way, that comes to lead the reader into thinking slightly differently on architecture. In selecting some

Let’s celebrate the birthday of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe who was born on March 27, 1886, coined the famed slogan ‘less is more,’ and forged the most spectacular and radical career spanning the formative years of modern architecture. Born in the ancient German town of Aachen, Mies started his career at the Berlin office