Daniella Ohad

I am not easily moved by jewelry as I am by other forms of design, but it has recently happened to me, when attending a talk by British jewelry artist Christopher Thompson Royds (b, 1978), at the Mahnaz Collection, in celebration of the New York Jewelry Week. A graduate from the Masters program of Silversmithing, […]

You won’t find the small Japanese town of Kamikatsu in the itinerary of those traveling to Japan. Yet, the town of which population is numbered at 1,374 was recently placed on the global map for its sustainable living policy. In 2020, Kamikatsu will reach the ultimate goal to be the world’s first ‘zero waste’ town.In Kamikatsu,

In beginning a new decade today, let’s look back at the spectacular, super innovative, and influential other 20s, the 1920s. It was a decade rich in revolutions and utopias in the world of design and architecture. With the conclusion of WWI on November 11, 1918 and following the German Revolution of 1919, Expressionist architecture was

Announcing a new season of the program ‘Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights,’ is always a special moment. Together with Cultured Magazine, the Center for Architecture/AIA, and some of the most brilliant figures in the world of collectible design, curators, dealers, makers, designers, I’ll open the spring 2020 season on February 18th. The program, the only

Since it was published last year, Tom Morris’ book ‘New Wave Clay‘ has become the bible of the super popular world of contemporary ceramic art. Clay artist of today, he has argued in this remarkable publication, could not be more different than their 20th-century counterparts. Contemporary ceramics of the 21st century are created by ceramic

With a brilliant presentation/discussion with James Zemaitis, I have concluded a fascinating fall season of the program Collecting Design (at the Center for Architecture/AIA) this morning. James and I had first met in 2001, just a month after 9/11. It was when he introduced the new design department of Phillips in New York, which he

Top 10 Instagram posts in Daniella on Design. Above: Top Post: Swedish design firm Ulf Mejergren Architects has proposed a public pool that will take over the entire rooftop space of Notre Dame cathedral, for restoring the Cathedral. Photo: Jean-Sebastien Evrard. Notre Dame on Fire. Photo by CNN. A proposal to make turn the roof

 The allure of the exceptional provenance. In the immensely successful design sale at Sotheby’s today, two lots stood out: a floor lamp by German architect Eckart Muthesius and a chase in lacquer by French master decorator Emile-Jacques Rhulmann. The two lots, fetched combined $2mm, came from the same home, the modernist palace of the Maharaja

There is a lot to learn in Valerie Steele’s mega exhibition Paris, Capital of Fashion at the Museum at FIT, where I visited this morning. Not that Paris has been considered the international “capital of fashion” since the days of the courts at Versailles, and not that it was the birthplace of couture and the first-ever

No other American house of the mid-century years had come to capture the fantasy of living in transparent glass as the three iconic houses which will be celebrated here this evening: The Farnsworth House; the Glass House; and the Walker Guest House. Constructed within two years of each other, between 1949 and 1951, and designed by