Daniella Ohad

https://daniellaondesign.com/blog/apple-campus-2-and-the-utopian-round-city Among the most exciting buildings to open their doors in 2017 is Apple Campus 2, designed by Foster + Partners as an enormous and perfect hoop-shaped complex, containing of research and development facilities and offices (above). The notion of the perfect round city that would transform society and express power and spiritualry was first […]

Above: Nacho Carbonell for Carpenters Workshop Gallery Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Chaîne for Galerie kreo Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Chaîne for Galerie kreo Frederik Molenschot, Cosmos Life 4 for Carpenters Workshop Gallery Ingo Maurer, 1000 Karat Blau Delta Collection by Studio Formafantasma for Giustini / Stagetti Galleria O. Roma, Morgane Tschiember, Open Space 5 for

Above: The Jungle House in Brazil, by Studio MK27 Port House by Zaha Hadid Architects, Antwerp Hanging Basket Roof in London by Hayhurst and Co 432 Park Avenue, US, by Rafael Viñoly 432 Park Avenue, US, by Rafael Viñoly Termitary House, Da Nang, Vietnam, by Tropical Space Spring Street Salt Shed, designed for the Department

Above: Convrsations on Design with Michael Chow @DeLorenzo Participating in the TV program de.sign in Sky Arte Collecting George Nakashima, the Film, November Visiting Taliesin, May Conversations on Design with Temple St. Clair @DeLorenzo, December Pierre Sabatier: Substance, Material, Matter @Magen H Gallery, November One Morning with Sebastian Errazuriz, October Pierre Chareau @The Jewish Museum,

Above: ‘UltraStellar’ by Zaha Hadid for David Gill Hieronymus Minero by Konstantin Grcic for Galerie Kreo Easy Chair by Alex Hill for Fumi The first 3D printed Wheel Chair by Benjamin Hubert Campione chair by Max Lamb 3D Lobster Chair, by GamuT’s Kvist Industries Carpace Armchair by Maarten Baas for Carpenters Workshop Manga Chair by

Above: Paul Evans, Cityscape console from the PE 300 series for Directional,  c. 1975 @Wright Paul McCobb and his Furniture in an Ad ca. 1950 Louis Kahn, Bangladesh National Parliament Pierre Paulin, F444 Artifort Chair in Leather, 1963 Interior by Emile Jacques Ruhlmann Brutalism in the Soviet Union, Druzhba Holiday Center Hal Yalta, 1984 Spiegel Publishing House

Rarely do I promote charities and/or donations in this blog, but today, I would like to bring one to your attention, one that has a great place in my heart. Perhaps in any New Yorker’s heart. It is a documentary of our beloved architectural gem, the Four Seasons Restaurant, one of the most iconic and

​Felt, the most ancient of all textiles has enjoyed a remarkable revival. What is felt? It is a textile created by pressing fibers together (rather than knitting or weaving). Felt has become particularly synonymous with the nomadic people in Central Asia, who still create their livign environments, rugs, tents and clothing out of felt, using

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the glamorous Hungarian actress died today at 99. Here is the design connection. While she married nine times, her most celebrated wedding was in 1941 to hotel magnate Conrad Hilton. During their five-year marriage, the two were living in one of the most iconic houses of the time, Casa Encantada in Bel-Air,

As a design historian living in Manhattan, there is a great place for Jazz Age design in my heart, simply because this glamour and rather avant-garde chapter in the history of modern design, is a part of the DNA of this city, with a key presence in the experience of living here. Even today. The