Daniella Ohad

When Misha Kahn, the 27-year-old New-York-based designer whose solo show I have visited this morning described it as a retrospective, I put a big smile on my face. I fact, from the moment you enter the wild space of fantasy, which Kahn created for his first gallery show at Friedman Benda you can’t help yourself, […]

This week, I have been surrounded by Latin American design. Last evening I have attended a fascinating and well-delivered lecture on Latin American design by Christian Larsen, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts & Design at the Met who appeared at my alma mater, the Bard Graduate Center, which I found enlightening and informative. Larsen, whose

Peder Moos (1906-91), the Danish furniture designer/cabinetmaker who crafted furniture by hand in the mid-century years, is a new star, born in the landscape of collectible Nordic furniture. When his dining table (above), crafted in oak and maple, commissioned in 1952 by the lumber dealer M. Aubertin for their house, which itself was designed by Finn

I had the honor to host four extraordinary women for a conversation at the New York School of Interior Design, which I called “Eileen Gray: Why Now?” Now this conversation is available to watch online (below). Jennifer Goff, Curator of Furniture, Silver, and the Eileen Gray Collection at the National Museum of Ireland; Cloé Pitiot,

Congratulating Galerie L’Eclaireur and Belgian designer Ben Storms for winning the PAD Prize for 2016, presented annually at the Pavilion of Art and Design in Paris for the Award-Winning Stand and for the Award-Winning contemporary design piece. L’Eclaireur, is a unique type of venture in the landscape of design galleries as it presents objects along

The fact that Claudette Didul, one of the designers in the Mad Men team has used the book “Decoration USA,” by Jose Wilson and Arthur Leaman when coming to design Don Draper’s bachelor pad in the 5th season of the blockbuster television series (above), is not surprising. The white carpeted living room, the colored kitchen,

​Zaha Hadid has suddenly died in Miami this morning, leaving the architecture/design shocked and saddened. When Hadid was selected by Philip Johnson to be included in his 1988 seminal show at MoMA Deconstructivist Architecture,’ she hardly built anything and her structures, composed of fragmented and disconnected masses, were considered unbuildable fantasies. She has since built

Congratulating Shuki Schwartz and Noga Friedlander of Tollman’s for celebrating 30th anniversary of their magnificent design temple tonight. It all started in the early 60s when Jeff Tollman, an immigrant from South Africa began importing Danish modernist furniture to Israel, and found that like millions all over the world, Israelis too, were captivated by the

London’s design lovers, supporters, and the design community are all showing a spectacular support for the upcoming opening of the Design Museum in its new location in Kensington. In a special benefit auction, ‘Time for Design,’ the Museum’s friends and such leading designers as Jony Ive, Marc Newson, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de

He would have been 130 years old today, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who had changed the face of 20th-century architecture. “Architecture” he said was “the will of an epoch translated into space,” creating some of the century’s most magical and poetic landmarks. A member of the German avent-garde, and the Director of the Bauhaus