Daniella Ohad

What do we consider comfort, and what do we consider private? How did past societies handle privacy and hygiene? How have designers throughout history addressed these notions of life, and what objects did they formulate in order to accomodate desired privacy? How did art history, TV history, and contemporary technologies deal with those themes? They […]

I call it Paris’ best kept secret because most people, including many of my friends and colleagues who live in Paris and really know architecture, have not been there—yet. I’m of course referring to the Albert Kahn Museum, a unique place that holds a magnificent experience which merges history, art, design, architecture, and landscape design

While the work of Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) has proven to be highly famous, prolific, costly, and widely admired, the newly opened Institut Giacometti (opened since 2018) brings to light many unknown aspects of his work, and thus a chance to get a new, fresh look at his oeuvre. Located on a quiet, picturesque

Last week I attended the opening night of the exhibition Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. As I witnessed the entire architecture community sip cocktails and view the exhibit, it felt as if the Museum had entered a new age under the wings of Abraham Thomas, The Met’s Daniel Brodsky Curator of Modern Architecture,

Wajima has been the cradle of Japanese lacquer art since the craft was brought from neighboring Korea to Japan thousands of years ago. The distinctive style developed in the port city known as Wajima-nuri and made in urushi—the sap of the lacquer tree—has become synonymous with high quality and innovation in Japanese decorative. At present,

When Robert Venturi was 66 years old in 1991, he received the Pritzker Prize (known as the Nobel Prize of architecture). He was praised by the jury for merging art and architecture like no one before him, and his influential treatise, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1967), has been credited for diverting the mainstream of

In the early 2000s when Los Angeles-based designer David Wiseman first entered the world of design as a fresh graduate from RISD, the contemporary furniture at the forefront of the newly emerged design market took on minimalistic sensibilities. It was not modernism nor postmodernism, but an innovative and personal expressions of new and organic type

If we have witnessed the rise of studio clay furniture in recent years, the new collection by Montana-based artist Casey Zablocki certainly brings a fresh approach. Montana is renowned for its special local clays, and has emerged as a center for American ceramic art since the 1940s. The present community, nestled in the heart of

When Emmy award winning husband and wife documentary filmmakers Tracey and Jake Gorst moved to Litchfield, CT in 2017, they could not have imagined that what they would discover would end up inspiring a new passion and subsequent labor-intensive magical project. Producing films focused on architecture was not new to them, however, it was in