Daniella Ohad

The Japanese pilgrimage. When visiting Kyoto’s Imperial Villa of Katsura in the past, I have immediately coined it ‘the most beautiful spot on earth.’ This time, my family has joined me to experience this sacred-secular magic, which they, too, called ‘the world’s most beautiful place.’ It has been praised as the definitive architecture of air […]

Although it did not originate in Japan, bur arrived there around the 8th century, indigo has become one of the symbolic foundations of Japanese aesthetics, also known as ‘Japanese Blue.’ What is indigo? It is a blue dye that is produced from those leaves of plants, which release in the most beautiful, richest, deepest blue,

In the rural village of Kanagawa, an hour drive from Tokyo, in the midst of lash rice fields, I have visited the studio of metal artist Kosuke Kato. A graduate from both Tamagawa University and Hiroshima City University, 31-year old Kato, who grew up in this village, has rediscovered, reinvented, and practiced the medieval art

If you enter Yufuku Gallery in Tokyo thinking of conventional boundaries in fine art, design, and craft, then you won’t get it. A “Return to Innocence” is how its dynamic owner Wahei Aoyama describes what he so successfully represents in the small and super chic gallery, located off the elegant Aoyama Avenue. His father started

The city of Wajima is located on the northwestern coast of Noto Peninsula in Japan, just 90 minutes drive north of Kanazawa. There is nothing special about the city known for its morning market, with the exception that Wajima, because of the wealth of Urushi trees, has become a center for the craft of lacquer

Another stop in our Tokyo’s architecture tour today was at Ginza’s Nakagin Capsule Tower. An architecture icon, and now in a total despair, it was designed in the 1970s by Kisho Kurokawa, and  is considered the most known example of Metabolism, the Japanese movement which was born in the 60s by a group of visionaries seeking

Tokyo is the most ambitious Capital of Contemporary Architecture. Its urban landscape is so alive that it contains some of the most exciting buildings of recent years, created by the world’s leading figures in the world of architecture. In Tokyo, architecture is not just about buildings, but it is a ritual, where the structures are

First Peek on the second day of filming Harvest Dialogues, with the most intriguing talents in the world of design, architecture, and fashion, and with so many surprises. Stay tuned as we will air on October 27th. This program could not have been made without the support of Rago Auctions; Elizabeth Collective; Maison Gerard; Anne

When I was first introduced to the art furniture by French maker/designer Erwan Boulloud, I was immediately thinking of André-Charles Boulle, the most legendary French cabinetmaker who worked with brass and other metals when creating furniture for his most famous client, the Sun King, Louis XIV. I was not surprised therefore, when meeting Boulloud this morning