Daniella Ohad

Contemporary Japanese ceramics stand at the top of artistic imagination, traditionally seen as the ultimate expression of Japanese spirit, art, and daily life. Over the past two decades, a new generation of ceramicists have redefined and reshaped clay art, formulating their own personal imaginative statements, and taking ceramics to new horizons. It has become a […]

I love everything about Art Nouveau. It was a romantic, yet radical, somewhat majestic style of beauty and dreamy ornaments. Alive around the turn of the 20th century, Art Nouveau came to touch architecture, graphics, design, a synthesis of art and craft.  It was optimistic, bright, and cheerful, anticipating the new century in time of

“Ulrich Fiedler has reached a level that many design gallery owners dream of but hardly ever achieve. He started out driving his truck from one flea market to another. In contrast to other dealers, he was interested in not only the price and profit but also in the authenticity and the historical background of the

Congratulations to Galerie Maria Wettergren, for moving to its new and spacious home at the heart of the Marias, Paris’ art district, in celebrating its 10th anniversary. For the occasion, the gallery has opened an inaugural show. Entitled ‘Nouvelle Vague I Scandinavian Art & Design 1999 – 2020,’ literary ‘New Wave,’ the title refers to

François-Xavier Lalanne was a French sculptor who, together with his wife Claude, founded a studio in Ury, France in the 1960s. They forged one of the most prolific art partnerships of their generation, and became known as ‘Les Lalanne.’  Their unique vision and original decorative expression attracted sophisticated Parisians, creatives, and a cult of followers,

“Michael Boyd has been—without a question—one of the most important figures in the 20th-century design market since its inception in the early 1990s. He pioneered the concept of the collector-dealer hybrid. Focusing mostly on what the art historian Nicholas Pevsner called The Pioneers of Modernism, Michael’s collection of European and American design was originally influenced by

When the American government sponsored the exhibition ‘Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today,’ opening at the Brooklyn Museum on November 30, 1950, it marked a  political moment of friendship and support of Italy’s efforts of reconstruction after the Second World War. At that time, nobody could have imagined that one day the glass-top

Kyoto-based Sokyo Gallery, which is dedicated to exhibiting and promoting contemporary Japanese clay art, has opened a solo exhibition of Harumi Nakashima (b. 1950), one of Japan’s most celebrated and ambitious ceramicists. Known for his hand-built twisted and fluid sculptures in white porcelain decorated in blue dots, Nakashima lives and works in Ena, Gifu; his vocabulary

The dream of every art dealer and collector, and one that happens once in a lifetime, when discovering the rarest of the rare. It happened this season when a suite by Danish master Finn Juhl, considered completely lost for nearly 80 years, was found. Peter Kjelgaard, Head of the Department for Design and Decorative Art at

If you admire Louis Kahn the way I do, you may find a new project, the publication of his notebooks and drawings interesting. It will be published next year by Designers & Books as the third edition (it was first published in 1962 (by Falcon Press), with second edition of 1973 by MIT Press, and