Daniella Ohad

There is no other room in New York City which has become as synonymous with the design heritage of the city as the famed Veterans Room at the Park Avenue Armory. This magical interior was created during the Aesthetic Movement period, which flourished in America in the late decades of the 19th century, and has […]

Bulgari, the Italian jewelry company, known in its Latin trademark BVLGARI was founded in Rome by Sotirios Boulgaris in 1884. It is the snake, is most notable codes, which is the subject and theme of a new exhibition that the brand opened to the public in Rome last week. Entitled “SerpentiForm,” the show has opened

Those of you who have been reading my blog for long know how fortunate I feel about my role as a design historian and educator, about meeting some extraordinary people in the world of design, some of whom who have become a part of my life. One of them is Dr. Philippe Cohen, a former

I clearly remember the first time I had come across the sculptural furniture by British duo Fredrikson Stallard. The pieces, presented then by David Gill Gallery at Design Miami/ of 2006 were so innovative and intriguing, that I was overwhelmed, felt exactly how one should expect to feel when entering a museum and an art/design

To celebrate the centennial birth of American designer-woodworker Sam Maloof, his Foundation opened an exhibition ‘Sam Maloof Woodworker: Life/Art/Legacy,’ at his historic home and workshop in Rancho Cucamonga, California.Considered one of the leading figures of the American Studio Furniture Movement, the California-born son of Lebanese immigrants, who taught himself woodworking, had a rich career that

Furniture by French artist Nicola L has been sought after by art and design collectors seeking for objects that represent blurring boundaries between art and design, and last week I have seen one example of her cabinets at DeLorenzo Gallery (below), one of my favorite design galleries. Since the mid 1960s, Nicoal L has been

The talk of the day in New York, the completed World Trade Center Transportation Hub, designed by Santiago Calatrava, an enormous white building in the shape of dinosaur bones or winged dove, providing New Yorkers with a design experience of the type we have not seen in our daily life for years. A giant cathedral,

When Studio Job, the design studio established in 2000 by Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel first showed its furniture at Design Miami, it was sensational and not always naturally received. After all, in the early 2000s, when many designers turned to the Modern Movement for a source of inspiration, it was rare to come across

Every spring, the AIA New York announces its Design Awards, and this time 31 recipients in the categories of architecture, interior, projects, and urban design, selected by a jury of independent architects, educators, critics, and planners from outside NYC. These projects represent the exceptional work by AIA New York members and architects practicing in New

 Dutch designer Maarten Baas came to fame with his “Real Time” series of clocks, and with a series of burned furniture called “Smoke,” adopted into a collection of Dutch label MOOOI, and particularly remembered from a solo-exhibition at Moss in 2004.  Since graduating from the Design Academy of Eindhoven in 2002, Baas has been committed