Daniella Ohad

The magic of the Italian design renaissance has captured the interest of curators, writers, and scholars in recent years. ‘The Glamour of Italian Fashion’ at the V & A; the remarkable analysis ‘Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design’ by Grace Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan, published in 2014; and the comprehensive exhibition ‘Venetian […]

According to a new study published by the Bag Hunter, looking at 35 years of collected historical data, Hermès Birkin bags have proved to be a top investment. The study compares popular forms of investments, finding that between 1980 and 2015, the S&P 500 has returned a nominal average of 11.66%; gold has offered an

Modernism Museum Mount Dora is a small, private, and focused museum devoted to collecting, exhibiting, and promoting the work of the American Studio Movement, with a core private collection of its founder, who resides in Mount Dora, just north of Orlando, Florida. Its new show “Esherick to Nakashima,” presents two seminal figures of the two

In the upcoming spring/summer season of the program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, I will be hosting experts, colleagues, and friends in unveiling and discovering the story of collecting modern and contemporary design. The only program of its kind, it has been taking place at the New York School of Interior Design, and is made

This is the unbelievable story of miserable architecture which brings to tears every New Yorker, who cares about the culture heritage of our city. It is the story of the Pennsylvania Station, the country’s busiest transit hub, but also the most hated train station in America. It all started very differently, with a grand Beaux-Arts

 Showing art and design, wife and husband New Zealander artist Francis Upritchard and Italian furniture designer Martino Gamper often collaborate, bringing some intriguing dialogues between art and design. I have fist seen the collaboration of the two when in 2012, they created a public housing project in London’s Hackney district. Now the two collaborate in

  I was honored to be asked to curate “Conversations on Design.” The program comes to bring to stage some of the most talented, successful, intriguing, and iconic personalities in the world of architecture and design. The guest of last evening, André Leon Talley, formerly editor-at-large at Vogue, is a man who had turned his

In Space Oddity, the single which icon rock-and-roll legend David Bowie released in July of 1969, he sang about Major Tom, a fictional astronaut who casually slips the bonds of the world to journey beyond the stars. It has since become seminal to the fear, mystery, imagination, and fascination with travel and discovery of the

In the 60s, when men discovered the moon, women discovered the miniskirt, and designers formulated a language that evoked the space-age and the future. Two fashion designers revolutionized couture when pioneering the miniskirt, bringing the new and youthful dress to the catwalk and to the wardrobe of such tastemakers as the Duchess of Windsor and

 The sho Marcel Wanders was one of the founders of the conceptual Dutch design movement of the 1990s as the co-founder of the Droog Design (literary in Dutch: ‘dry’), established in 1993.  Together with such talents as Hella Jongerius, Tejo Remy, Richard Hutten, Jurgen Bey and Joris Laarman, Wanders helped people think differently about design, and