Daniella Ohad

My students often complain that it has become more and more difficult to acquire and collect masterpieces of design for reasonable prices. Here is a sale that would enable that. He was a legendary metalsmith, Danish-American John Prip (1922-2009). Born in New York to a Danish family of metalsmiths and trailed in Copenhagen, Prip had […]

Can you think of what’s’ in common between Audrey Hepburn in her little black dress at Breakfast in Tiffany; Rihanna in Guo Pei’s yellow gown at the 2015 Met Gala; Madonna in her iconic Cone Bra by Jean Paul Gaultier; Mary Quant’s mini skirt; Paco Rabanne’s metal mini dress; Issey Miyake’s red bustier; and Christian’s

Congratulating my friend and colleague, architecture historian David Kroyanker, who has contributed more than anyone else to the research and documentation of the built fabric of Jerusalem, known internationally for his seminal series of books and articles about the city’s architecture. His new and super ambitious project, ‘Jerusalem Design – God is in the Details

The new furniture series, ‘Archeo Black,’ that Italian interior architect/sculptor/designer Vincenzo de Cotiis has created for Carpenters Workshop Gallery embodies contradictions, standing on the line between the polished and the rough, the new and the ancient, the elegant and the raw, the perfection and the imperfection, reflecting his fascination with the notion of the passing

I am pleased to announce that registration to the spring 2017 edition to my couture program ‘Design and Decorative Arts in NYC’ is open now. In exploring the season’s most exciting design events offered in New York City, we will be visiting the season’s best exhibitions, a new design fair, and we will be meeting

Bell–Lloc Winery in Girona and Sant Antoni Bell–Lloc Winery in Girona and Sant Antoni Joan Oliver Library, Senior Citizens Center and Cándida Pérez Gardens in Barcelona Joan Oliver Library, Senior Citizens Center and Cándida Pérez Gardens in Barcelona Office of RCR Arquitects, Olot

I couldn’t have thought of a better way to conclude a successful and fascinating design tour than visiting the studio of Brussels-based designer Maarten de Ceulaer, whose series of furniture ‘Pile of Suitcases’ I adore. A graduate from the Design Academy Eindhoven, de Ceulaer has developed his school project into a successful enterprise, evoking his

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