Daniella Ohad

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

The single most important guiding principle in my travels, one I will never compromise on, is the quest for authenticity. By this I mean that the best way to experience a destination is through its traditions, culture, contemporary life, and local architecture. I certainly did not invent this concept. Tourists’ desire for authenticity and staged

If Italian architect and designer Gianfranco Frattini (1926–2004) were living today with design becoming increasingly identified with Instagram images, he probably would have been more inclined to self-promotion. However, the legendary and prolific architect, who belonged to the generation of heroes who shaped Italian classic modern and turned Milan into the world’s design mecca in