Daniella Ohad

​One of the best parts in the fascinating talk by Dr. Jennifer Goff, Curator of Furniture, Silver, and the Eileen Gray Collection at the National Museum of Ireland in my class on collecting design this morning, was that devoted to the carpets that the Parisian-based Irish designer created from the teens through the 70s. It […]

What a wonderful contribution to the story of sustainable architecture. Here is an organic pavilion, called ‘Perspectives,’ a structure covered with Cedar Shingles, set at Surrey Hills Court, in the UK. Commissioned by Surrey Hills Arts and the Mittal Foundation, and designed by Giles Miller, it comes to provide a restful spot for contemplation within

Yesterday, the first day of the fall, we have visited the newly-opened Demisch Danant Gallery, which has recently moved from its Chelsea home into a new location at the heart of Greenwich Village, designed by Rafael de Cárdenas. The opening of the new space has coincided with an exhibition entitled “Made in France,” which comes

Throughout his life in New York, American designer Vladimir Kagan (1927-2016), who was born in Germany to a Russian cabinetmaker and emigrated to the United States in the 30s to flee the Nazis, has established himself, not only as one of America’s greatest furniture designers, but also as one of New York most beloved personalities.

Yesterday, a glorious autumn day and the last day of filming of the upcoming documentary Collecting Paul Evans, turned to be a day of remembering the designer in the most personal way. We drove from Manhattan to the studio of Dorsey Reading, who was Evans’ first hand for decades, and who was responsible for crafting

I am pleased to tell you that registration to the fall season of my program Design and Decorative Arts in NYC has started, and that it is set to begin next month. I am opening two classes, one on Wednesday mornings and one on Thursday mornings (starting October 19th and October 20th). This program, in

It has been too long since I have visited Espasso, the Tribeca-based gallery which specializes in modern and contemporary Brazilian furniture and design. Too long I say because last night, I made my way downtown for the occasion of the opening of its wonderful exhibition of new work by Brazilian designer Claudia Moreira Salles, and

I was first introduced to the work of Studio Formafantasma, the Amsterdam-based design duo at Gallery Libby Sellers in London a couple of years ago. The Italian duo Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin are the talents behind Studio Formafantasma, and like other graduates from the Design Academy of Eindhoven, they create conceptual, fresh, unorthodox design,

 In its curated design sales, Parisian auction house PIASA has advanced various chapters in the collectible design market, including Brazilian design, Chinese contemporary design, and now, it its upcoming exhibition and auction, entitled ‘Italian Design and the Fabulous 1950s of Gio Ponti,’ mid-century design. The auction, which will take place on October 12th, will highlight

Congratulating my two friends Lisa Cohen and Suzy Slesin, for the wonderful second issue of their beautiful new magazine Galerie (published by Hudson Media). With the inflation in design magazines, both in print and digital, it seems that it would be almost impossible to introduce a new approach into this arena. But the duo, Cohen,