Daniella Ohad

​Let’s celebrate Brasilia’s birthday. The modernist federal capital of Brazil, which was founded on April 21, 1960 is 56 years old. Unique in its ambitious and modernist urban vision, Brasília was planned and developed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer to replace the capital Rio de Janeiro. Its urban planning design has been recognized as […]

Galerie Patrick Seguin London presents an exhibition on French decorator Jean Royère, bringing the legacy of this giant to British collectors and lovers of design. A self-taught interior and furniture designers, Jean Royère began his career in 1931 at the atelier of Pierre Gouffé. He moved to open his own gallery at 184 rue du

Internationally, Harry Bertoia is known for the Diamond Chair series which he designed for Knoll in the 50s and which has become a global blockbuster (below). But in America, the sculptor and designer is particularly known for his exploration with the relationship between sculpture and sound, and for the significant oeuvre that resulted from this

​Congratulating Lisa Cohen and Suzy Slesin for the launching of their new design magazine Galerie. For this occasion, in collaborating with No Longer Empty, a nonprofit organization that sets up art installations in empty spaces, the two have opened an Upper East Side mansion with an installation entitled ‘Be My Guest,’ where artists and designers 

Collectible Italian lighting is the topic of tomorrow’s class in the program Collecting Design at the New York School of Interior Design in collaboration with Cultured Magazine. Lighting took on a special significance in Italy during the postwar years when design had reached its golden age. The expressive, chic, sculptural modern lightings created by a

 When Jørn Utzon won the legendary competition for designing the Sydney Opera in 1958, he approached Le Corbusier to create a tapestry for the foyer of the building. He couldn’t have imagined that it would take decades before this abstract work of art would be installed in its home. But the 6.5-square-metre wool tapestry, woven

Loved every minute in the conversation with 92 year old Gloria Vanderbilt and her son Anderson Cooper last evening at the 92nd Street Y. The event came to highlight the recent documentary ‘Nothing Left Unsaid,’ which aired on HBO this week and their memoir ‘The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life,

Want to thank Emma McClendon, curator of the fantastic show ‘Denim: Fashion’s Frontier’ at the Museum at FIT, for taking me through it today and for revealing its ideas and process in her articulated words. It was a treat. Seeking to examine the history of denim from the 19th century to the present, the exhibition

British designer Gavin Munro belongs to a generation of young thinkers exploring for ways to allow and assist nature to create objects. Tokujin Yoshioka, the Japanese designer has created chairs growing in salting water and formed into salt crystal; Studio Libertiny has presented wax vases made entirely by bees; Neri Oxman has gathered silkworms and

If you happened to notice the iconic Yves Saint Laurent dress from his Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition’ series which fetched last week $27,500 (against its pre-sale estimate of $4,000 to $6,000) at the Chicago-based auction house Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ April Couture Auction, you probably wondered about the long sleeves (below). With the abstract, geometric language of