Daniella Ohad

​With the courageous investigations and the finding of the last suspect in the terrorist attack last month, Brussels is getting ready for the upcoming Art Brussels, the contemporary art fair. In its reduced form, Galerie Downtown will be presenting an exhibition ‘Takis-Prouvé’ which comes to juxtapose contemporary art and mid-century architecture by two key figures […]

​Let’s celebrate Jean Prouvé’s 115th birthday today. While known today as one of the most important designers/architects/engineers of the 20th century, he was foremost a metalworker, seeking to creating prefabricated buildings and pieces of furniture as to change the world, and help the French people living in a modern way. He grew up in Nancy,

He has been a pillar of the NYC design world for so long, that it is hard to believe that Vladi Kagan won’t be with us anymore. The German-born Manhattan-based, Columbia-graduate Kagan has died yesterday at the age of 89. To Kagan, making and designing furniture was a lifetime passion, a part of his DNA,

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