Daniella Ohad

​Thank you, James Zemaitis for delivering the most invaluable and fascinating talk on collecting Danish chairs this morning. A part of the course I teach on collecting design at the New York School of Interior Design, in this session, devoted to Scandinavian furniture, we focused on the postwar years, when Scandinavian furniture burst on to […]

I am pleased to announce that we have started shooting the film on collecting furniture by Paul Evans today. A part of an ongoing series on collecting design, which is produced in conjunction with a program I teach at the New York School of Interior Design “Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights,” this film is supported

Revisiting Eastern German old architecture and transforming existing buildings while utilizing cost-effective methods, is where architect Arno Brandlhuber has found his most fulfilling creativity. His work has recently been discovered and his Antivilla was filmed by the NYT. In this concrete structure, a former lingerie factory building in Potsdam, originally designed without central heating, he

​By next Tuesday, the Four Seasons Restaurant, once hailed as the world’s most beautiful restaurant will be just a memory. Yesterday, together with a few dozens of design editors, writers, and professionals from New York I have attended the moving and sad preview of the sale of all of its contents. From the stunning bar

Design Miami/ is so much more than a marketplace that offers some of the greatest objects available today. It is a celebration of many aspects of design, a festival for all senses. This time, Design Miami/ participates in a charity gala event that benefits UNAIDS, the spectacular United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS. The

While the world was celebrating Frank Lloyd Wright’s 149th birthday yesterday, MoMA announced a major retrospective of the architect to open next June on the 150th anniversary to his birth. MoMA has had a close connection to the architect’s legacy and his archives. While considered today the most celebrated, the heroic architect of the 20th

Maxéville Design Office, which French designer Jean Prouvé (1901-84)  produced in 1948, ended up as a part of his Ateliers Jean Prouvé in Maxéville, until removed and restored last year. One of his demountable prefabricated buildings, this one was created for the Noisy-le-Sec experimental site and was intended for use by the government as a

As Design Miami/, the global forum for design opens its Basel edition next week, I would like to devote my blog to a couple of important events and exhibitions in the world of design, all occur alongside Art Basel. Today, I want to look at the material brought by Carpenters Workshop Gallery and to tell

​Thank you, David Stark for a great tour of your studio and workshop in Brooklyn and for a fascinating presentation of your dazzling work. I call him a wizard, because David can create the most spectacular, breathtaking, imaginative spaces out of nothing. Well, not exactly nothing, but he utilizes things and materials that many of

I have first met John Birch, co-founder of New York design destination Wyeth years ago when posting an ad in the local newspaper for a small chair that I wanted to sell. John came to my home, personally picked up the chair, and told me about his passion for design. It is when I discovered