Daniella Ohad

                                                                                      In the class devoted to the American Studio Movement this morning at the New York School of […]

New York City is not going to be the same after legendary fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, who died today at 87. I am sad, sad, sad, because Cunningham was a part of the New York City that I know. He was our treasure and he was everywhere. Always hovering on 57th Street, his favorite block,

This week, we began shooting the film on collecting George Nakashima, and today, we spent the day at the George Nakashima Woodworker in New Hope, Pennsylvania. As architect, designer and thinker, Nakashima called himself woodworker. He integrated work, life, and the natural world which he admired, when crafting furniture that grew out of his philosophy

Before Frank Gehry, there was Frank Lloyd Wright, and before him, Stanford White (1853-1906) the ultimate American star-architect. White was a true star, when designing some of New York’s best and most influential neoclassical structures during the Gilded Age, as a partner of the firm McKim, Mead & White. While his personal life was so

If for Alexander McQueen fashion was a form of art and for Calvin Klein, a form of identity, then for Isaac Mizrahi, fashion is a form of entertainment. And this fact is carried throughout the new show at the Jewish Museum ‘Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History.’ Thank you, Kelly Taxter, co-curator of the exhibition for

If Julius Shulman is known for creating images which brought modern architecture to the American mainstream, and Ezra Stoller as the “chief enabler of our experiences of modern architecture,” John Samuel Margolies (1940-2016), who died last month at 76, can be crowned as the photographer of America’s vernacular architecture. He captured the everyday existence, the

Art and politics have always been intersected with one another as art so often comes to express political ideas and to respond to political events. I have read today that the artist who created Israel’s most celebrated sculpture, a stone relief inside the Knesset (the parliament building) entitled ‘Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem,’ no

In the postwar years, Milanese architect-designer Gio Ponti had achieved the title and position of the Dean of Italian Design. He designed everything from tableware to furniture, from flatware, to skyscrapers, to department stores, to hotels, and founded the magazine Domus, which came to shape and present postwar Italian design and facilitated its success abroad.

Let’s celebrate Charles Eames birthday. The most charismatic figure of the American design world during the age of Mad Men was born on June 17, 1907. Forging a lifelong partnership with his wife Ray – he was an architect by training and she was a painter and sculptor — the two had become the heroic

The Museum at Bard Graduate Center, my alma mater celebrates the spectacular lives and careers of husband-and-wife architects Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio-Aalto (married 1924), who crafted one of the most enduring and productive partnerships in the history of modern design, with the famed design brand Artek. Entitled ‘Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern