Daniella Ohad

A couple of years ago, I assigned my students a paper that requested to identify the fashion designer, the architect, the interior designer, and the artist beyond works of design. Where can we see the artist in Noguchi’s coffee table, or the fashion designer in Rick Owen’s furniture? This project came to guide students to […]

Houses in plastic? In the 70s, plastic was the primary material used by visionary designers to express the futurism of the Space Age. Think about Pierre Cardin’s plastic dresses; the Futuro House by Matti Suuronen; or the Monsanto House of the Future, built in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, in demonstrating the potential of modern plastics to transform

Collective Design, the New-York-based design fair is partnering with Frieze New York in presenting an exhibition, entitled Color and Production: From the Atom to the Void, curated by London based Libby Sellers. Now, that the Frieze got cancelled, the show will launch tomorrow as a part of the digital platform Frieze Viewing Room, which will

Few pieces of jewelry have come to capture the imagination of generations of design lovers and stylish women as the ‘Giraffe’ necklace and bracelet, created by Art Deco lacquer master Jean Dunand (1877-1942) in 1927. Examples of the masterpiece in black-red-gold can be seen today in such museum collections as the Met, and the Musée

Last evening I concluded the first part of the webinar The Story of Modern Design with the Center for Architecture/AIA. That 5-session section was devoted to mid-century design, concluding with Brazil. If there is one slogan that captures the local design spirit at this time, it is ‘Modern Vernacular.’ According to the dictionary, it is

Taste has the power to transform everyday life experiences, and it is therefore a desired commodity; defining one’s taste has become a complex mission, with the pluralism and endless possibilities. This morning, I invited Hugues Magen, the dynamic founder of New-York-based Magen H Gallery to speak in the program Collecting Design, which has moved to

Thank you, AN Interior Magazine for including me in the article on contemporary collectible design and on the state of the market, published in March, 2020.  Above: A display of unrequited love finds itself scribbled in cursive handwriting. Exhibited as part of a Pierre Yovanovitch solo show mounted at New York Gallery R & Company in Fall

In the world of American Studio Furniture, J.B. Blunk (1926–2002) has remained a mystery. This California-based sculptor who created sensual and fantastic masterpieces in stone, wood, and clay, including jewelry, furniture, along with sculptures, has been ignored by those writing the this unique moment in the history of in American art. Blunk’s work looks like somewhere in

To the design dealers, who have put effort, love, and passion into rediscovering the world of modern design. To those who have devoted their careers to advancing scholarship, given and sold to museums, discovered pieces that would otherwise be destroyed, promoted preservation, and made 20th-century design shine in our homes. This series of posts is to them, to recognize those dealers who carry on in

Who designed this scooter? Following the success of the first part of the online program The Story of Modern Design with AIA New York | Center for Architecture, we are opening the second part, devoted to the Modern Movement in Italy, Germany, France, Russia, and the US. Five Fridays from 5 pm starting on May