Daniella Ohad

The Getty Foundation has announced a new grant to preserve Modern architectural landmarks of “the highest architectural significance.” The nine icons supported by this round of the grant, will received $89,000 to $200,000 each, and including the following: Lina Bo Bardi’s own home, also known as Casa de Vidro, or Glass House, constructed in São […]

I am pleased to announce that registration to the fall 2016 edition of the program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights is open now. The only program of its kind, it comes to educate architects, interior designers, decorators, and art collectors in one of the most fascinating territories—the international marketplace of modern and contemporary design. This season,

The residential unit in Stuttgart designed by Le Corbusier (above and below), which have recently been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List was initially built for an architecture exhibition in Stuttgart in 1927. The seminal event, Weissenhofsiedlung, which came to highlight new developments in Modernist housing, was curated by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and

Anyone with love for American design knows that the most glorious chapter in its history was rooted in 18th-century Rhode Island. As a graduate from the program of Museum Studies: Decorative Arts at F.I.T (a program no longer in existence), I was fortunate to have Marilyn Johnson, the legendary curator of decorative arts at the

One of the most exciting and intriguing events of the upcoming Biennale des Antiquaries, which opens in Paris in September, will be presented by Artcurial, a 10-day exhibition leading up to a sale entitled ’20 Year Friendship with Diego Giacometti: Brollo Collection.’ The show traces a friendship between a couple of collectors, Eliane and Daniel

In the film on collecting furniture by George Nakashima, which I am creating these summer days for the New York School of Interior Design, there is a special chapter devoted to the legendary collection of Dr. Arthur and Evelyn Krosnick of Princeton. Friends of the Nakashimas, He was the medical director of the Princeton Diabetes

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