Daniella Ohad

With mid-century Brazilian furniture moving forward and into the mainstream of the collectible design market, becoming the subject of publications, auctions, and exhibitions, I would like to tell you about a beautiful venture, called Studio 55, which is taking shape these days in Los Angeles (opening on September 21st). It is an ambitious project of […]

It is hard to believe that it has been 15 years since the day that came to change the world – September 11th 2001, when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, once the tallest buildings in the world, designed by the American architect Minoru Yamasaki in 1965 and completed in 1973, were destroyed

If you want to understand what is abstract-conceptual design, go to the new exhibition, ‘50 Manga Chairs,’ by Japanese design group Nendo, at Friedman Benda Gallery. While at first glance, the gallery looks like a storage of chairs of various shapes, projecting to different directions, when you look at them closely, you realize that they

The archives of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum span objects from ancient times to the 21st century. Now, that the Museum has completed a digitization project, 92% of the collection has become available online. This ambitious project feeds into the museum’s overarching digital strategy, which is to give visitors as much interactive access to

​For design historians interested to study and analyze the modern interior, documentation or, I should say a lack of documentation, is often the central issue with which those studying this territory have struggled. Interiors are ephemeral, short-lived, and quickly changed with transformations of vogue and taste. While interiors have been shaped by the culture and

Yesterday we went to the Met Breuer, the former Whitney Museum, now the Met’s new space dedicated to modern and contemporary art, to view two exhibitions, “Arbus: In the Beginning,” and ‘‘Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.” The presentation of the first is stunning, with each of the photographs framed in black and hung on a gray

With an increase in interest in collecting studio ceramics, Greenwich collector Martha Vida has recently established a free searchable database for American studio ceramics and pottery produced since the end of World War II, called the Dictionary of American Studio Ceramics, 1946 to Present, and its available online. This electronic database includes a listing of

Since immigrating to the US in the 30s, Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902 –1981), the Hungarian-born modernist, and one of the most prolific figures in the Modern Movement, who started as the youngest student of the Bauhaus, designed mid-century jewels that came to spread the mission and taste for Modernism in this country. Now, one of

In furniture design, synthetic resin in its various forms has gradually become the material of our age, in the same way plywood had become the material of the 40s and carbon fibers of the early 2000’s . Resin has a tremendous potential to be formed into fluid forms that capture liquid, oceans, and ice formations,

If there is something we can learn from the British is the way in which they elevate their gifted designers into national treasures. Tate Modern’s Switch House, its new extension by Herzog & de Meuron’s has opened with a display dedicated to British designer Jasper Morrison, one of the most influential product designers of our