Daniella Ohad

When you watch the documentary Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island (directed by Katherine Knight and Marcia Connolly), you start thinking differently about modernism as you get to witness the long way it has gone since the early International Style, as it was seminally called, to the 21st century when modernist architecture has become […]

was honored to be invited to deliver a talk on the role of collectible design in the world’s finest interiors at Fresh Paint, foremost Israel’s contemporary art fair. Held each year in a surprising location in Tel Aviv, this year it is taking place at the new Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. While the fair

When a famous musician’s design dream comes true. It has been considered one of the most magical American esidences of the mid-century years, the recently restored home which George Nelson designed in the 50s (completed, 1958) for his friends the Kirkpatricks, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. With an incredible taste, and personalized details, testimony to the allure

In the new selling exhibition at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, entitled ‘Masters of Design,’ the masters are defined as those who had come to shape French design in the years following WWII. Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand were not only active in the rebuilding of France and its colonies, and in substantiating

​R & Company’s co-founders Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman can be credited for bringing mid-century Brazilian furniture to the conscious of collectors, for supporting scholarship, and for forging the path for its now international market. They have been responsible for disseminating the allure of design created in Brazil during the decades after WWII by immigrants

According to an excellent article published by Fred Bernstein in WSJ this weekend, Grete and Seamour Shavin of Chattanooga, Tennessee are among the only five original owners of Frank Lloyd Wright, still living in the homes that the American architect designed for them in the 50s. The couple, in their 90s, wrote a letter to

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

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

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