Daniella Ohad

With the upcoming celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday next June, we are going to witness events that include an architecture tour that I will be leading, and what will be the most ambitious retrospective of the architect to date, at MoMA. Now, I read that the local government in Banff, Canada has issued

Full voice of Chinese contemporary design will be presented by Parisian auction house PIASA in October, 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 will be introduced to European collectors for the first time. This event

Congratulating my dearest friend, artist/sculptor/designer Ilana Goor whose museum was recently named and recognized as one of world’s best beach museums. For the past twenty years, Goor has developed her home, a 270 year-old gem in Old Jaffa, into one of the most beautiful and distinctive museums in the world, shaping it according to her

As we approach the 15th anniversary to the tragic 9/11, Riva 1920 has issued a table that comes to symbolize that date that came to change the world. When architect Renzo Piano had first designed that table, it was for the project ‘Ground Zero… Ground Heroes’ of Riva 1920, as one of five tables that

Let’s celebrate 117th birthday for Eero Saarinen, the American architect who was born on August 20th, 1910, on the 37th birthday of his father Eliel Saarinen, Cranbrook Academy of Art’s director. Saarinen was the prince of the American design world during the postwar years, and when he died at the age of 51, America was

More than anyone else, it was architecture photographer Julius Shulman who had captured through his lens the glamour aspects of mid-century California modernism, and the lifestyle associated with its architecture. Shulman, who, himself lived in Los Angeles, famously forged close relationships with the local leading Modernists, such as Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and R M

When Rosenthal, the German porcelain brand commissioned architect Walter Gropius with a tableware design, TAC, in 1969, he was living in the United Stated and was working his last major commission, the Tower East, Shaker Heights, Ohio (below). Gropius and his second wife Ise had settled in the US in February 1937, building their house

Fashion designer and film director Tom Ford, whose art collection includes works by such masters as Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, and Andy Warhol, has the most impeccable, intellectual, elevated taste. When it came to choose an architect for his ranch, a compound in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is set on 20,000 acres, he chose

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate David Rago for celebrating twentieth anniversary of The Rago Arts and Auction Center and to thank him for supporting the two films on collecting George Nakashima and Paul Evans, which are a part of the series on collecting design (featured in the program Collecting Design: History,