Daniella Ohad

​For the kickoff event this morning, I have decided to invite a special guest speaker, someone who is conversant with the new way of thinking in the age of social media, someone who is inspiring and knowledgable, someone who has the ability to stimulate audience to think differently. I have invited my colleague Adriana Kertzer […]

Of the 50 states of America, one was responsible for the development of the modern design culture which swept this country in the years following WWII. One state was the influencer, where the taste for the modern was formulated and produced, the cradle of industrial furniture, banks, household goods, restaurants; while its automobile industry took

Thank you, One Vandam, Sean Murphy Turner, and Britt and Damian from Studio BD for hosting the kick off of my program ‘Design and Decorative Arts in NYC’ in the breathtaking penthouse A of One Vandam, at the heart of SoHo. I cannot think of a better place to host a program that illuminates the

When my longtime student Virginia Bayer told me that her grandmother, Marguerita Mergentime was an influential and passionate textile designer, active in interwar New York, I immediately went to the literature to look her up. I could not find her in the encyclopedic volume Women Designers in the USA by Pat Kirkham, nor in any

I am getting excited about the upcoming design week in NY, which comes to offer the best of the best in design, and one could find in the various fairs objects that may be seen only once in our lifetime. One of these rare gems will be presented at the new TEFAF New York, which

Another exhibition in celebrating Ettore Sottsass’ centennial will be opening in conjunction with the Venice Art Biennale next month. Highlighting the ceramics that the Italian designer/architect created between 1955 and 1969, my friend and colleague interior designer and collector Charles Zana will be curating a dialogue between two giants, foremost talents of mid-century Italian design,

​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

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