Daniella Ohad

Fernando Santangelo: Contemporary Living 

Among my favorite design sales, are Sotheby’s Contemporary Living auctions, held bi-annually in New York, presenting the selection and taste of interior designers with a particular knowledge in the collectible design market. This time, for an auction held on July 28th, capturing an intriguing dialogue between design, photographs, and prints, interior designer Fernando Santangelo has

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Built in USA

The seminal exhibition ‘Modern Architecture: International Exhibition,’ which opened at MoMA in 1932 and coined the term The International Style, showcased the architecture of the European pioneers of the Modern Movement, Gropius, Mies, Le Corbusier, and J. P. Oud, and came to define the modernism in formal and aesthetic terms. It is considered today as

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Brazilian Modernist

When Brazilian painter Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) decided to start designing gardens in the early 1930s, and to transform his abstract art into landscape architecture, he could not have imagined that it is in this discipline that he would make the most spectacular career, becoming perhaps the best known garden designer of the twentieth century.

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The Collection of Robert Isabell

In creating the film on collecting Paul Evans, I have devoted a tribute to floral designer, party planner, and leading tastemaker Robert Isabell, who had assembled what is still considered the best, most significant collection of Evans’ studio furniture (with the exception of Doresey Reading’s collection). Consisted of mid-20th-century furniture and sculpture, the collection was

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