Daniella Ohad

 Born on August one. Let’s remember the most heroic and powerful fashion designer in recent memory, who started his enormously prolific career as the Creative Director of Christian Dior in 1958 at 21.  He founded his couture house in 1965 and immediately became a star. It was followed by his ready-to-made label, called Rive Gauche, […]

No other film has celebrated Italian modern design as much ‘Roman Holiday,’ the 1953 comedy, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Chic Hepburn, a bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians to Rome and falls in love with an American newsman, Gregory Peck. The first American film to be shot in its entirety in Italy,

It was never fully confirmed whether architect Mies van der Rohe has a romantic relationship with his client Dr. Edit Farnsworth, for whom he designed one of the most magical masterpieces of mid-century modernism, completed in 1951 in Plano IL. However, when the exquisite house was completed, Farnsworth realized that it not only cost triple

Intrigued by the secrets of Soviet-era architecture and design, forged behind the iron curtain when the USSR blocked itself from contact with the West, I was thrilled to get a copy of the new comprehensive study ‘Soviet Design: From Consturctivism to Modernism, 1920-1980,’ published by Scheidegger & Spiess. This hard copy volume illuminates previously neglected

With the wealth of virtual programs, I would like to suggest the program ‘California in the ’70s—The Mindset, the Materials, the Architects’ by the Los Angeles Conservancy, on July 22nd. Los Angeles gave rise to a hotbed of architectural ingenuity during the 1970s, as seen in the creation of its architectural institutions and a burgeoning crop

This is a story of Cinderella. Not the fairy tale of the glass slippers, but the table, called ‘Cinderella,’ offered for sale in the upcoming design auction (July 29th). An icon of 21st century design, the ‘Cinderella’ is a precious piece of furniture, which in 2004, was an early demonstrator of the possibilities of CAD-CAM (computer-aided

Let’s remember Hungarian-born American industrial designer Ilonka Karasz (1896–1981) on her birth date. One of the only women designers of her generation, Karasz forged a successful career against all odds, helping to implement the taste for modern design in interwar America. She created wallpapers, textiles, carpets, lighting, ceramics, metalwork, and furniture, but became known to

Join me for a live conversation with Nancy Lorenz for R & Company.When? July 14th at 2 PM. This program is open to the public via registration. Lorenz has become known for her unique art panels in lacquer, gold, and mother-of-pearl inlay on wood, where she brings together nature and craft, Italian methods of craftsmanship with Japanese

Vising the first Tel Aviv Crafts and Design Biennale at the Eretz Israel Museum this morning was a fresh exit from the realm of Pandemic-focused exhibitions. Seeking to comprehensively describe the current state of local design and crafts, the show includes works in ceramics, glass, fibers, metal, and other media. This Biennale represents the Museum’s