Daniella Ohad

It is rarely that an architectural icon on that level is available on the market for sale. One of the most famous and seminal houses in Los Angeles and perhaps in the world, known as the Bailey House, or Case Study House #21, is offered for sale through Sotheby’s. Designed by Pierre Koenig as a […]

eThis is a thank-you note to artist/designer Sebastian Errazuriz for hosting my class at his amazing studio in Brooklyn this morning. Errazuriz, who has become an integral part of the NYC’s design world since moving here ten years ago, epitomizes the new role of the designer of the 21st century. With conceptual, provocative, and daring

Laffanour Galerie Downtown, the Parisian gallery presents an exhibition devoted to glass sculptures by Robert Wilson, the Watermill-based renowned artist and stage designer. We learn that since the 1994, Wilson has been engaged with creating glass, each unique, each is shaped differently, each abstract, each architectural. Through a closed collaboration with SIRVA (Centre International de

I have to admit that I was not aware of the Japanese word ‘Kiku’ until yesterday, when we visited at the exquisite exhibition ‘Kiku: The Art of the Japanese Garden’ at the New York Botanical Garden. ‘Kiku,’ you learn at this show, which has taken years to create, is the Japanese word for Chrysanthemum, the

While there are many occasions, in which I feel fortunate to do what I do, today was one of those exceptional moments, when I had the honor to host dealer/historian/writer Louis Bofferding in my class Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights at the New York School of Interior Design. Bofferding, who has recently published a fascinating

If there is one designer in the postwar era, who had put the creation of a relationship between human form and design and the integration of space, material, and the human body at the forefront of his agenda, it was Italian designer/writer/educator Carlo di Carli (1910-1999). Upon graduating from the Polytechnic University of Milan in

The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition and its Benefit Gala is one of the world’s most important fashion events. For 2017, the show will focus on Rei Kawakubo and her brand Comme des Garçons (on view from May 4 through September 4), a theme that is particularly closed to my heart. When I was in my

Loved visiting MoMA’s exhibition “How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior” for the third time and leading a tour of this well-curated fascinating show that comes to explore the innovations that the Modern Movement had introduced to the territory of interior design. There is no better place to present this theme as MoMA

When I had first enrolled in an academic program on the history of design (decorative arts, it was called then) in the early 90s, it was the Renaissance maiolica, the painted pottery which was the most ambitious form of Italian Renaissance art, that came to capture mine and my classmates’ imagination. Because maiolica was a

​Full voice of Chinese contemporary design is presented by Parisian auction house PIASA this week, with a curated sale dedicated to collectible, unique, and limited edition contemporary Chinese design, representing three generations of designers; some of whom have been known and others are introduced to European collectors and audience for the first time. This event