Daniella Ohad

In this week’s session of the program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, I have hosted Robert Kaplan, collector, dealer, friend, and an expert on the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Kaplan, who has started his journey in the world of collecting in the mid-1980s has developed the most genuine passion for the furniture and decorative […]

One of the most fascinating chapters in the history of modern architecture, when architects began responding to the process of urbanization in the early years of the 20th century, is being examined in a new exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art entitled “Modernity and the City.” It was the birth of the skyscraper, and

Now, that the Foundation Louis Vuitton announced a retrospective of French designer Charlotte Perriand, which will open in October, it is going to be time to further investigate, study, and illuminate her enormous, seven-decade career, which spanned much of the past century. It is not the first time that the fashion powerhouse will be presenting

Karl Lagerfeld, the giant couturier and creative director of Chanel, Fendi, and his own label, has passed today. He was provocative and visionary, but most of all, he had an extraordinary taste and eye to lead the way to what would come next. When he saw the colorful, radical objects presented in the first show

Today, we opened the Spring 2019 edition of my flag program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, in its new home at the Center for Architecture/AIA, with a full class of architects, interior designers, collectors, and design enthusiasts. Every week I am hosting one expert: curators, collectors, dealers, auction specialists, writers, in highlighting the most current

Alessandro Mendini (1932-2019) was a great designer who had rarely designed great objects. When a student of mine asked me yesterday, upon the announcement of Mendini’s passing what makes Mendini an important designer, it was a good reason to examine his legacy. Mendini was an intellectual, visionary, revolutionary figure who opened up horizons and taught

The upcoming auction of design masterpieces which Christie’s will be holding in London, there is one lot which stands out. A sculptural, outstanding catilever desk in brushed stainless steel, designed by Ben Swildens in 1966 for three receptionists at the Max Ingrand’s interior for the Paris showroom of the French automotive giant Peugeot. The desk,

The most celebrated moment of the Danish Chair during the Golden Age of Danish Design was certainly the presidential debate of 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, when the two candidates were seated on Hans J. Wegner’s Round Chair, also known as simply ‘The Chair.’ The Danish Chair as an international and

In a new course, which I have completed teaching last week, on the most iconic homes of the 20th century, I included the Elrod House in Palm Springs. One of the most celebrated houses of its time (completed in 1967 and featured in Los Angeles Times Home Magazine in 1968), and the ultimate expression of

The Bauhaus has become synonymous with Harvard, the principal hub of modernism in America, after it was closed down by the Nazis. The two are linked not only because the Harvard Art Museums has one of the first and largest Bauhaus collections in the world, including works by Josef and Anni Albers; Marcel Breuer; Wassily