Daniella Ohad

Thank you, Jacob Bernstein, for including me in your excellent profile on Paul Evans, published in the New York Times today. The article comes to look at the exact same angle of Evans’ work and career which I seek to examine in my upcoming film Collecting Paul Evans, which will air in the spring at […]

Examining art jewelry in a broad artistic context in a scholarly way has been a great challenge, ever since the Studio Jewelry Movement emerged in the 70s. Now that the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, is about to open a retrospective of Linda MacNeil, an American artist who has come to bridge the Jewelry

Congratulating French designer, artist and scenographer Pierre Charpin and his dealers Didier and Clémence Krzentowski of Galerie Kreo for receiving the very prestigious Maison & Objet Designer of the Year honor. Born in 1962 in Saint-Mandé, Charpin is a visual artist who since the 90s, has devoted much of his artistic creativity to design. While

This about an iconic couturier who created some of the most elegant and luxurious silhouettes in the history of 20th-century fashion, featured on a postage stamp by the French Post Office, and was often called the favorite designer by such best-dressed tastemakers as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn, who famously appeared in his dresses

This many seem contradictory , but globalization and nationalism do not necessarily have to contradict each other. Collab is a small group of design supporters, consisted of design professionals and enthusiasts who promote design visionaries in an annual award and exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This year, rather than presenting one design legend,

When you look at the world that Paris-based American designer Rick Owens has created, you always think of the ancient, the Biblical, of life described in the Old Testament. You think of the slaves who built the pyramids, of the people migrated with their tribes wearing dark robes made of felt. You think of the

These days, in the early days of 2017, we are at the final stage of post-production work on the film Collecting Paul Evans, which will be number four in the series on collecting design, created in conjunction with the course I teach at the New York School of Interior Design ‘Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights.’

​What we learn from the new book Tham ma da: The Adventurous Interiors of Paola Navone, published last week by Point Leaf Press (by Spencer Bailey), is that travel and the experience of the lifetime traveler have come to play the most substantial and ambitious roles in shaping the rich and complex vocabulaties of the

They were the royal couple of the design world, Lella and Massimo Vignelli, gifted designers, teachers, tastemakers, designing our lives. Since establishing their design and architecture office in 1960, they have been influential in many areas of design culture, working in their New-York-based Vignelli Associates, and producing some iconic designs, including the visual identity of

Here is a new and useful tool for those interested in the work of American artist/designer/sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné, a project undertaken by the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in seeking to documenting the practice of the artist, is now available for free in its digital version. It contains the