Daniella Ohad

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,

Modernist villas are so much about volumes, that it is nearly impossible to understand them, to appreciate them, to really enjoy them through two dimensional photos. When it comes to Mies van der Rohe, in addition to volumes, his architecture is defined by the unity between men and nature, and by the detail. The detail

​Ever since I have started my journey into the history of decorative arts, it was Bohemian glass and its history, which have come to capture my imagination, the glass produced in the regions of Bohemia and Silesia, now parts of the Czech Republic, since the early years of the 17th century. I was therefore so

The beauty about visiting Prague, a European metropolis which was lightly bombed towards the end of World War II, is its architecture, which had largely remained intact. While Prague contains some of the finest examples of Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Art Nouveau architecture in Europe, we were mainly interested to discover its modern buildings,

As I sense a strong interest in the work of women designers of the 20th century, I would like to bring your attention to Pat Kirkham, the design scholar, the one and only one who curated the groundbreaking show ‘Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference,’ celebrating the contribution of women designers to