Daniella Ohad

When leaving the new exhibition ‘Eileen Gray,’ opened to the public today at the museum of my alma mater, the Bard Graduate Center, I felt exactly the way I love feeling when exiting a remarkable show. That design can take your breath away; that scholarship has the power to expand the experience beyond what we […]

How to turn historical decorative arts into a blockbuster showcase, making them fresh, intriguing, and relevant to the 21st century viewer? Go to the newly-installed British Galleries at the Met, which were unveiled today, following six-years of renovation by Roman and Williams. You will find the answer in the ambitious project, which comes to celebrate

If you ask architects today whether they prefer Mies van der Rohe’s modernist slogan ‘Less is More,’ or Robert Venturi’s counter postmodernist phrase ‘Less is a Bore,’ you would probably get the first one as the premier answer. If contemporary architecture is much about complexity, expressiveness, dogma-free, narrative, and experience, why do we still dislike

Think about a world where every single house is furnished the same. Scary? This is what I had in mind when recently searching the web for furniture by Pierre Jeanneret. You can find it all: originals, knockoffs, re-editions, reproductions, fakes; made in India, Italy, the US; crafted and mass produced. The market is flooded. Authorship, authenticity,

‘Radical Italian Design,’ also known as ‘Anti-Design,’ was a Movement flourished in between the late 60s and the mid-80s. It was a complicated, sophisticated, Utopian movement, which did not produce objects just for everyone, but rather perceived design as a means to express narratives, political and social statements, critical against commercialism, expression of conceptualism, democracy,

\There are only handful luxurious houses built by the founders of the Modern Movement before WWII. Masterpieces commissioned by daring patrons, designed by those pioneers who changed the face of the history of architecture, which came to express the promise of 20th-century design in the ultimate way. While some of these houses – Maison de

The controversy of the week: Federal design guidelines for government buildings made the front-page news. A draft of a new Executive Order, which is meant to be handed to President Trump in the next month or so demands that “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again.” This Order, which comes to impose style, referring to many civic and federal buildings

Join me on February 26th for an amazing night of design and inspiration, when LongHouse Reserve will honor Joseph Walsh in its winter benefit event. The evening will begin at 6 with a cocktail reception at the Hearst Tower, by Sir Norman Foster, following by a talk, and concluding with dinner at the Fifth Avenue

​Legendary homes which superstars architects have created for their superstar clients is the theme of a new exhibition ‘Houses for Superstars Hypermediated architecture’ at the Art Centre of Villa Noailles. As the Villa itself represents one of the most iconic commissions of this type, designed by superstar modernist Robert Mallet-Stevens for legendary art patrons Charles