Daniella Ohad

With only five townhouses he built in his hometown Brussels in the late years of the 19th century, Victor Horta (1861-1947) cemented his place in the history as the father of Art Nouveau architecture. Those masterpieces marked the early phase of his career, but also its peak. In fact, Horta devised the first of these […]

Thank you, Design Miami, for including me in the article: What’s to Come? Thoughts on the new year from our on-the-pulse design friends around the globe.

If she had lived during the age of social media, she would certainly have been one of the world’s most powerful influencers; an arbiter of taste, defined by her delightful eccentricities. Her advice would have been embraced by millions, and her homes—a luxury apartment on Park Avenue in New York, a house in London, and

The future of design is a topic oft pondered, but what of the future of its marketplace? Now in its tenth year, Collecting Design: The Legends seeks to answer this question and more. The biannual education program, organized and hosted by design historian Dr. Daniella Ohad in partnership with New York’s chapter of the American Institute

Exploring the intersection between architecture, art, and design, and its potential to stimulate an unexpected design experience, has been the focus of design curators in recent years. This formula has been successfully dominated interior design, museum shows, and has come to produce and carry a narrative which is one of the most desirable aspects in

When I had first moved to New York in the mid-1980s, Susan and John Gutfreund were the stars of the local high-society scene, and their lifestyle was constantly featured in NYT’s society pages. It was before social media was born, but their lives, the parties, the fashion, the trips were featured in the same way

Pâte de verre, ‘glass paste’ in French, is a method of mixing glass powder with clay into a paste, which is then formed into vessels and other forms of decorative arts. This post is about an artist who has reinvented this magical technique. It was invented by the Egyptians to create beautiful objects, jewelry, boxes,

The Moynihan Train Hall—a spectacular gateway—is the best New Year’s gift that New York City could have received from our beloved governor, Andrew M. Cuomo. After a remarkably difficult year; filled with loss, mask protocols, economic crises, and travel bans; this amazing accomplishment symbolizes an optimism and hope for a better future.​If you are not

It happened 50 years ago, on Sunday morning, when the 87-year-old couturier was working on a new collection at her home, a massive suite in Paris’ most luxurious hotel and suddenly died. The world stopped when Coco Chanel (1883-1971), the mother of the tweed suit, the two-tone shoes, the quilted handbag, and the ‘perfume of

Tokyo, like New York, Paris, London, and Berlin, is a complex metropolis, filled with architectural masterpieces—unique, innovative buildings, both historical and contemporary. Tokyo is a wonderland of architecture, and for this reason, it has long been one of my favorite cities—a visionary metropolis of both fantasy and reality.  For the architecture enthusiast (or for any foreigner