Daniella Ohad

As soon as you walk into the Long-Island-City studio of Nancy Lorenz, you feel that strong Japanese aesthetic sensibility. You can breath it In every corner. Her luminous installations, inspired by traditional Japanese lacquer, and crafted in gesso, lacquer, and gilding have been known for years to anyone visiting the boutiques of Chanel and Gucci […]

There is much written about the Bauhaus recently, in celebrating its centennial, that we must be more selective and careful than anytime before when consulting our resources. Therefore, these days, when I am preparing my various lectures on the Bauhaus, and while researching for the upcoming Spring Dialogues, which will include a lot of discussion on

In starting our journey into the world of German Modernism this morning in the class Collecting Design, I have presented and examined one of the most ambitious and intriguing projects in the history of modern design, the Artists’ Colony, established in 1900 in Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, sound of Frankfurt. It was the life project of an ambitious

The Leonard A. Lauder Lecture Series on Modern Art, by its Research Center for Modern at the Met, is devoted this season to new and original research of the radical changes that affected Russian architecture during the twenty years following the Bolshevik Revolution. Entitled ‘Art x Architecture: Russian Intersections 1917–37,’ it is presented by Jean-Louis

The role of the design dealer has been gradually shaped since the birth of the collectible design world around the year 2000. It has since come to include a variety of specialized activities not much different than that of the art dealer, including collecting; encouraging scholarship and original research; publishing books; supporting emerging talents; demonstrating

I am delighted to announce here for the first time about the upcoming event that I will moderate in celebrating NYCxDESIGN. Entitled “Collecting and Living with Danish Modern: Crafting Modern Lifestyle,” it will take place at the Center for Architecture/AIA on May 14th, supported by Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers. In the panel, three of the world’s

Anything related to George Nakashima, his studio, his family, and his extraordinary his legacy, has been of a great interest to me. After all, it was in his studio, when I met him in the 80s, that my taste began to form. Now that the Michener Art Museum has opened its new show ‘Nakashima Looks:

The first time I walked into a building by Irish-American architect Kevin Roche (1922-2019) who passed yesterday, was memorable. It was the striking courtyard of the American Wing at the Met Museum, which to this day I find breathtaking and inspiring, one of the my favorite spots at the Museum. Roche belonged to a generation

Walking into the new solo exhibition of Lebanese designer Najla El Zein at Friedman Benda, is like walking into a dream-like haven of sensuality, where you are surrounded by women dressed in white like Greek goddesses, using their own body to express their heroic sexuality. But when I walked into the show this morning, I

Many people dream about living in a house of fantasy, but there is only one, an apartment on Via Washington in Milan, which is called Casa di Fantasia; it was designed by Gio Ponti for Arredamento Lucano in 1952 . Now, that Phillips London in collaboration with Italian auction house Cambi for the sale of its