Daniella Ohad

For those of us, lovers of design and architecture who dream of visiting homes of famed architects and picking into their everyday lives and into the spaces that served them as laboratories for experimentation with ideas, here are great news. The Princeton home of American architect Michael Graves, also known as The Warehouse, serving as a […]

From the first moment I have come across Maarten Baas’ ‘Real Time’ series of clocks, which employs videos where the hands of time are moved in real time, I found it overly brilliant. Now one of Baas’ gigantic clocks is placed at the Lounge 2 at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, available for travelers to experience

For its summer programs, the Museum of Arts and Design dubbed a film series under the title “Midcentury Masters,” which focuses on prominent postwar architects and designers. Last evening, I went to see the film on Italian-Brazilian modernist legend “Precise Poetry” by Belinda Bukschcio. The documentary focuses on Bo Bardi’s iconic buildings which she designed

I love Grand Hotels. I am talking about those large luxurious hotels built in traditional architectural style, with fairy tale ball rooms, grand dining rooms, in the manner of “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” These hotels has come to provide an extraordinary and glamorous touristic experience since first born in the 19th century, but are vanishing.

​​If you happen to be in London this weekend, there is one mandatory stop that you are ought to plan, a visit to Masterpiece London, one of the world’s most beautiful fairs, located in the gorgeous Royal Hospital Chelsea. With eliminating the section of luxury goods and rather focusing on art/design/antiques, the six-year old Masterpiece

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

A strong debate feeds the XV International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, which opened last month, under the directorship of Chilean Pritzker Prize-winner Alejandro Aravena. Serving as the world’s most important showcase of architectural theory and culture, the Biennale has moved between socially engaged themes artistic expressions, similar to the two streams that have

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