Daniella Ohad

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 […]

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 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

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

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,

 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

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,

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

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

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