Daniella Ohad

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

Charles Percier was the most important tastemaker in the age of taste, when taste came to define political power. This week, the Bard Graduate Center Gallery opened a show: Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions. Together with his collaborator Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, Percier defined the taste of his most prolific

The second day of our visit to Bogotá was devoted to a visit to legendary Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral and her artist-designer husband-partner Jim Amaral. They had first met as students at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, when the two attended the prestigious school in the 50s. Upon graduating, Jim, who was born and raised

​When Sotheby’s announced its upcoming sale of the collection of David Bowie in the summer, it released only a couple of images from his design collection, hinting on his love for Italian Radical Design. The full scope of his taste for design was released this week, when the catalog of the sale “Bowie/Collector” was finally

I am not good at being a tourist and thus I rarely become one. But I love being a traveler, exploring the cultures I visit from within, their foods, their people, architecture, art, design. Currently visiting Bogotá, I was honored to be hosted by textile artist Jorge Lizarazo at his atelier, situated in an expansive

As the market for collectible design has emerged and as collectors have become more and more educated, the ‘curated sale’ has become the touchstone of our time. Just like the curated interior and the curated event, the curated sale comes to present design in historical, broad context, providing the viewer and the collector with a

Growing up in Israel, my first recollection of Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965), the visionary Austrian-American artist, designer, architect, had been his magical Shrine of the Book, the home of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which he co-designed in 1965 as a white, sleek dome, a part of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (below). I then discovered his

Before she abruptly died of heart attack last spring, Zaha Hadid began creating a furniture collection for David Gill Gallery; it became her last one. Called UltraStellar, it was unveiled by the Gallery last weekend in conjunction with PAD London which opens tonight. This time, while following her signature vocabulary, the Iraqi born British architect

https://daniellaondesign.com/blog/on-interiors-in-pink In her excellent book on the sexual politics of taste in the mid-century years, called ‘As Long as its Pink,’ design historian Penny Sparke relates the color pink to women’s taste. In those years, taste was gendered, the interior associated with femininity, and ‘design’ was the territory of men. I was thinking of Sparke’s