Daniella Ohad

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 […]

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

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

Congratulating Costanzo and the family of Canfora for celebrating 70th anniversary of my favorite sandals, which have allowed me to dress stylish and comfortable in the past twenty-something summers. Canfora was born in 1946 in Capri, just as WWII came to its end, and Europe’s royals, artists, intellectuals, and actors had rediscovered the Italian island

​Every design lover has their own ‘Bauhausie.’  Mine has always been Hungarian visionary László Moholy-Nagy, the Bauhaus teacher who created interdisciplinary work before the term was invented, and who pioneered the marriage of art and science.  Thus I could not have been happier to learn that the Guggenheim opens a retrospective “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present,” this

Above: the quintessential modernist staircase by Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye (1930). Staircase of the Martin May House in Chicago (1941), by Samuel Marx A curvaceous staircase, designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, Salon 94, New York. Staircase by I.M. Pei at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Luxembourg Staircase by Isay Weinfeld Spiral Staircase by Wharton

So hard to say good-bye to the Four Seasons Restaurant, but I want to congratulate Julian Niccolini, legendary restauranteur, and owner of the iconic restaurant for finalizing on 280 Park Avenue, as its upcoming new home, where the restaurant will be moving from its original Seagram Building (above). Known as the world’s most beautiful restaurant,