Daniella Ohad

Last year, at the talk in Design Miami, which I have co-hosted with David Netto, Lee Mindel was presented as the ultimate design connoisseur of our time. With his brilliant choices, passion for the history of architecture and design, and impeccable, educated taste, Lee has influenced two generations of architects and interior designers interested in […]

Design Miami/ 2016. Above: 1950 Alberto Aquilino Victor Hunt Designart Galerie Kreo Galerie Patrick Seguin Magen H Gallery Sarah Myerscough Laffanour—Galerie Downtown Moderne Gallery Carpenters Workshop Gallery Galerie Vivid Jousse Entreprise Friedman Benda Salon 94 ammann//gallery

​When I first moved to New York in the 80s, it was Malcolm Forbes who was considered its leading socialite and tastemaker. With his immense collection, including a couple of Faberge Eggs, which has been on a permanent view at his Forbes Galleries, housed within the Forbes Building on Fifth Avenue, just next door to

Thomas Mann was a member of a group of Jewish writers and intellectuals, exiles who settled in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, when escaping National Socialism and Hitler’s Germany. Another member of this community was my great uncle Lion Feuchtwanger who lived in Villa Aurora, a Spanish colonial villa just across from the Noble Prize-winning author.

The Hearst Tower celebrates its 10th anniversary. Set just two blocks from my home, this cutting edge skyscraper, serving as the world headquarters of the Hearst Corporation, was completed in 2006. In fact, its history dates back to the 20s, when legendary newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst commissioned Viennese, New-York-based architect Joseph Urban to design

One of my favorite topics, German Expressionism in architecture, was the theme of class held this morning. In the first Werkbund exhibition, held in July of 1914 in Cologne, Bruno Taut designed his famed and ultra-influential fairy-tale pagoda Glass Pavilion, a small structure in glass and steel, set on a concrete base. Heralded the Utopian

Cabinets of curiosities, or ‘Wunderkammer,’ Cabinets of Wonder, were those rooms filled with encyclopedic collections of objects of natural history, geology, antiques, and archaeology, developed in Renaissance Europe, when they came to symbolize their patrons’ control over the world, through owning its microscopic reproduction. Those rooms came to stimulate creative thoughts among Renaissance men. This

Tonight, we screened the film Collecting George Nakashima at the New York School of Interior Design for the first time. It comes to illuminate his role in the story of collectible design, a film which is particularly closed to my heart as I began living with Nakashima furniture when I was 25. At the podium,

Luigi Caccia Dominioni (1913-2016), the Milanese architect who was one of those who pioneered industrial design in Italy died last night at 103. A graduate from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1936, he was mainly active during the postwar years, between 1950 and 1970, taking part in the reconstruction of Italy after WWII and in

It was the first time that I have seen the work of French sculptor Pierre Sabatier (1925-2003) when visiting the new retrospective of his work at Magen H Gallery. And it is all thanks to passionate founder of the gallery Hugues Magen (below) who has discovered the work of Sabatier years ago and fell in