Daniella Ohad

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

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.

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,

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

For the concluding session in the program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, at the New York School of Interior Design, we are going to discuss the early modern design in Vienna, one of my favorite chapters in the history of design. In his memoir, Stefan Zweig the most successful writer in the German-speaking world, wrote about his

It has been long since Shaker furniture and material culture have been a focus of an exhibition in New York. Therefore I was excited and rushed to the Met to see the new show “Simple Gifts: Shaker at the Met,’ which opened this week. The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, known also

I would like to devote this post to Amy Ogata, the most brilliant and innovative design historian I have met, whose book ‘Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America’ was recently published by University of Minnesota Press. This labor of love and remarkable scholarship comes to explore the cult of childhood creativity

With Brazilian design emerging as a key theme in the international marketplace for collectible design, Parisian auction house Piasa has collaborated with Rio-based gallery Bolsa de Arte to create a curated sale of design from Brazil, entitled ‘Design do Brasil, 1940-2015,’ taking place on July 7th. The sale combines mid-century modern design masterpieces by Joaquim