Daniella Ohad

If you attend London Design Festival next month, don’t miss this small, jeweled exhibition, which will bring you directly into the heart of the 60s. The decade marked an exceptional time of creativity in design, when innovation triumphed over tradition, where emotion overcame logic. British architect and interior designer Max Clendinning (1924-2020) embodied the spirit of […]

If you believe in the power of design to enhance architecture and vice versa; if you want to witness how the vintage complements the contemporary in the most powerful, natural, seamless way, then make your way up the Hudson River and don’t miss the current exhibition, ‘Formafantasma at Manitoga’s Dragon Rock: Designing Nature’ at Manitoga

I love this story, the romantic story of NY-based gallery Ornamentum Gallery which took contemporary jewelry to new horizons and is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary. Laura and Stefan met in the early 1990’s while pursuing their degrees in Metals and Jewelry at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Stefan’s interest in the jewelry developed

There are those handful gifted revolutionaries, who have created the pivotal moments that came to change the face of history. Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, who died this week at 84, was one of them. His timeless pleats have made it into the pantheon of the fashion history since the 1980s, for their beauty and

The cherished dresser in my bedroom was acquired at an auction by Phillips just after 9/11. When I recently discovered that it came from the private collection of John Exelrod, I became intrigued by this connoisseur, who has assembled one of the finest collections of American modernist design. Created in the 20s by Viennese-American industrial

Some artists—successful ones—can afford to construct their own legacy. They want us to see their work, not only at an art gallery or museum, but in their living and working environments, so visiting their homes allow us a more widespread means of experiencing their creative world and oeuvre. Look, for example, at Auguste Rodin, whose

No wonder Greta Garbo’s portrait was selected as the cover image of the blockbuster Exhibition, ‘Swedish Grace: Art and Design in 1920s Sweden’ at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Why? Because this show comes to glamorize the arts of Sweden in the same era which celebrated Garbo as one of the finest, most successful movie stars

There are cemeteries that contain masterpieces of modern architecture and there are those cemeteries which are masterpieces themselves. The Woodland Cemetery in central Stockholm is one of them. Perhaps the most famous of all, a site of architecture pilgrimage since almost its very beginning for its beauty and innovation. It was designed by Erik Gunnar

If there is something the people of Stockholm are prouder of than their magnificent City Hall, it is its National Romantic Style in architecture. It was rising from an upswell of national consciousness, spread across the Nordic countries in the early 20th century, and coming to express their unique northern identity. Stockholm City Hall is one