Daniella Ohad

The workshop was the touchstone of the craft industry in Renaissance Italy, standing at the  center of production during the centuries following the Renaissance until the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. Carpenters, stone carvers, silversmiths, bronze casters, painters, joiners, all worked under one roof in the workshop setting, creating the decorative […]

​As a part of my lecture series in Tel Aviv in the program Modern Design conducted by Dafna Ish-Hurvitz (above), I had the honor to curate a conversation on stage with Ilan Pivko tonight. One of Israel’s most influential architects, Pivko was the first to introduce the notions of taste, design, and lifestyle in the

In my lecture on collecting Latin American mid-century design this evening, I loved focusing on the so-called Glass House, which Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-92) designed in 1951 in São Paulo as her own home.  Bo Bardi, who together with her husband co-founded the influential art magazine Habitat, played a central role in

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,