Daniella Ohad

The world of design will not be the same since Amy Lau (b. 1968), one of the most beloved members of our community and a personal friend and colleague, passed on last week after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Founder of Amy Lau Design, she created interiors like a curator, thought like an […]

Perhaps the single most anticipated architecture event of 2025, is the Expo Osaka in Japan, with its exquisite and heroic theme – ‘Designing Future Society for Our Lives.’ Opening on April 13th, its projected visitor count is 28 million. I will be there, and would like to encourage anyone with love for architecture and design

The three most substantial aspects of any successful interior today are a curated-style selection of objects, a strong presence of handcraftsmanship, and the notion of storytelling. Interior designers have taken on the dual role of curators and poets in their quest to achieve interiors that are meaningful, interesting, personal, and inspiring. These are the values

The attention which Cuban-born designer Clara Porset (1895-1981) has recently received from scholars and museum curators is almost unparalleled, and consequently, her ideas and works are finally garnering the influence they have so long deserved. Wendy Kaplan, the design curator of Los Angles County Museum of Art, first revealed to the American public Porset’s legacy

The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture (formerly known as the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation), which maintains the late architect’s estate archive, has begun to present architecture exhibitions on architects other than Rudolph. It is situated at the Modulightor building (246 East 58th Street) in mid-town Manhattan. Rudolph and his life partner Ernst Wagner acquired

Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history, while establishing a basic contour of the subject. Part III is a 5-session course, providing an overview of the avant-garde movements, directions, and visions developed during the second half of the 20th century, a fascinating period in

Close your eyes and imagine wide open fields of colorful wildflowers in full bloom during the height of spring, stretching into the horizon. This is what you could potentially see when visiting Jos Devriendt’s new solo exhibition, FLOWers, at the Demisch Danant gallery in New York. But perhpas you would think of Pandora, the fictional

In postwar Turin, he was a stylish, renaissance man, and a performer. In everything he did – designing furniture, interiors, racing cars, photographing women in a series of erotic polaroids, mastering the art of skiing, his selection of fashion and objects that he found – he was an avant-garde performer and a storyteller. While he

Think about the nostalgic times before video games, when families gathered around board games and spent their evenings and holidays together, playing Monopoly, Scrabble, or Parcheesi.  I remember those days when we played monopoly, sitting in a circle on a large Oriental rug at my late grandmother’s house, and I believe that the monopoly board