Daniella Ohad

While my lecture on Space Age design this week will focus on the luxurious furniture and objects, fashion, and accessories which French artists and designers created of stainless steel and other futuristic materials during the 60s and 70s, known also as the golden age of futuristic design, when it comes to architecture, I would like […]

I am excited to launch the seminar Tel-Aviv-Holland, which I’ll open tomorrow, as a part of my lecture tour in Tel Aviv. It comes to highlight the contribution of the Dutch Conceptual Design Movement to 21st-century design. Born in the 90s, this key Movement was founded upon the intellectual and ideological roots formulated by the

 Rarely do I post an urgent request to sign a petition, but since it has to do with the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, I would like to let my readers know about a danger of losing one of New York’s greatest gems. The hotel has a special place in my hears as it was where I

Mid-century California modernism has come to capture the attention of design lovers worldwide, and much of it has been published and showcased over the past decade. A new book comes to investigate one famed development, the Trousdale Estates, known as the most ambitious project that still summarizes the Los Angeles’s residential architecture vocabulary of the

It has been 90 years since Depero Futurista, the Italian Futurist seminal book and one of the most iconic design publications of the 20th century was published. It all started when in 1927, Italian Futurist artist and designer Fortunato Depero created a monograph of his work, which he called Depero Futurista, literary ‘Depero the Futurist.’

One fabulous booth of contemporary design at the fourth annual edition of the FOG Design+Art Fair, which took place last week at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, by David Gill Gallery. The preview gala came to benefit the newly transformed and widely heralded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). This fair has

As the American Studio Movement becoming more and more intriguing and its legacy has been documented and explored, its next personality to be rediscovered is California-based artist J.B. Blunk (1926-2002), with a new monograph ‘J.B. Blunk: Cups, Plates, Bowls & Sculptures: Ceramics 1950 – 1999.’ Like many of his peers, the founders of the Movement, Blunk sought

This magic of cast iron came to capture the imagination of millions living in the last years of the 19th century, and it was the world’s tallest building for no less than forty years. While it was initially built as a temporary structure in celebration of technology on the hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution,

I am pleased to announce the content of the spring edition of the program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, open in April at the New York School of Interior Design. The only program of its kind, it comes to examine the territory of collecting modern and contemporary design, which stands at the forefront of style

When we think of Mario Bellini, we think of the renaissance of Italian product design, of the high-tech look of the 60s, which has since become synonymous with Italian design, of the high style of Italian design, of which Bellini had become one of the most substantial ambassadors. I had first learnt about Bellini’s accomplishments, as