Daniella Ohad

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,

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

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

​Design Curio is a brilliant idea introduced by Design Miami to provide a platform to emerging galleries who are required to present total environments of objects created by a single designer. It has emerged as one of the more surprising, unorthodox, fresh, and inventive aspects of the Fair, presented along Design Miami’s core galleries. In

Think about  a stool that looks like a rock of pearls; a Rococo cabinet crafted of thousands of steel rings welded together into a mesh; a wall sculpture created of dense oyster shells; a piece of furniture made of roped bamboo cast in bronze. These are not just fictional objects, but what I saw when

​Spending the morning with Ingrid Donat and her son Julien Lombrail in viewing the solo exhibition of her work at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York was a great privilege, for my students and myself. The two have opened up about the special relationship between a mother artist (Donat) and her son who acts as her

After visiting the opening night of The Salon Art + Design last evening, I am so proud and pleased to be a member of the honorary committee of this remarkable, NYC’s best design/art fair, which takes place annually at the Park Avenue Armory. I would like to congratulate Jill Bokor and Sandy Smith for a