Daniella Ohad

If there is one car which has always captured my imagination, its definitely the Jaguar XKSS, a racing car, which I know from photos. Originally produced in 1956–1957, only 25 were produced, nine of which were destroyed by fire at the Jaguar factory shortly after completion. This week, the company has announced to be producing […]

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

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

Here is a book I recommend for hot summer days, by my friend Christopher Bascom Rawlins (forwarded by Alastair Gordon), ‘Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction,’ published by Metropolis Books. The first attempt to tell the cultural history of Fire Island’s modernist homes, built in the gay community of the Pines

David Bowie was an influential musician, actor, and icon, and to me, a symbol of the Space Age era. With his ‘Space Oddity,’ which he performed and released as a music single in July 1969, telling the fictional story of Major Tom, an astronaut who casually slips the bonds of the world to journey beyond

The UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has named 17 projects by Le Corbusier in its World Heritage Sites, recognizing the cultural or physical significance of the architect for expressing “the solutions that the Modern Movement sought to apply during the 20th century to the challenges of inventing new architectural techniques to respond to

It has been long since the work of Ron Arad has been exhibited, perhaps too long. Because Arad’s exhibitions are always celebration for all senses, as he knows the magic of performance when showcasing design, and has brilliantly mastered the way in which design, art, and performance feed each other in the most inspiring, dramatic,

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.

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

Meeting Phyllis Lifschutz at her beautiful home in Princeton today was an inspiring, moving, and stimulating experience. Phyllis, who is an accomplished artist, is perhaps the most ambitious collector of furniture by George Nakashima still living with it in the most rewarding way. The 93-year-old charming intellectual, who creates greeting cards for living, had first