Daniella Ohad

Harvest Dialogues marks the second season of my talk show about the design world. In fact, we started filming this week at Carpenters Workshop Gallery! Some of my readers have asked me to reveal the list of guests, so here they are. In the Architecture episode: Thomas Mellins & Kate Ascher discuss the fascinating history of […]

David Gill is one of the most influential and intriguing tastemakers in the global world of contemporary design. Since opening his gallery in 1987, he has taken a leading role in promoting, advancing, and producing the design of the forefront. Gill is a benefactor of museums and public institutions worldwide, supporter of award-winning exhibitions, and

Let’s remember Robert Venturi, (1925-2018) the architect who taught generations of architects how to learn from Las Vegas and who died this week at 93. Martin Filler, in his book Makers of Modern Architecture notes that “among all American architects since Louis Kahn…..only three –Frank Gehry and the husband-and-wife team of Robert Venturi and Denise

A design icon is an object with a great design quality, a significant historical story, and a proven provenance, just like the chair which will be offered next month by Christie’s London and will be on view for the London Design Festival until 20 September. It is a part of a set of six, created by Turin-based designer Carlo

The recent interest in Soviet concrete architecture has resulted in several publications and exhibitions, the foremost of which is the current ‘Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980’ at MoMA. But ‘Brutal Bloc Post Cards,’ a jeweled book by Jonathan Meades (published by FUEL) is special in that it illuminates the public perception of

Exquisite proportions, meticulous craftsmanship, and sensual forms are the three key elements that characterize the furniture and light sculptures by Australian, London-based designer Charles Trevelyan (b. 1974), presented in a new solo show, ‘Fuse,’ opened this evening at Carpenters Workshop Gallery. The imagery and distorted forms, which according to Trevelyan were inspired by the world

I have always praised the juxtaposition of the antique and the minimalist, finding it inspiring and powerful in every way, always unexpected, always moving. The reduction of Minimalism against the antique whether its rustic or ornate, support each other in a special way that is closed to my heart. Now that the new Musée des

On his birthday, let’s remember gifted architect Rudolf M. Schindler who was born on September 10rh, 1887 in Vienna. He immigrated to the US at 16, worked for Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles, and settled there, opening a practice, and made his career by building homes in the region, a center of construction of

Spiral buildings have fascinated artists and architects since Biblical times, when the Tower of Babel was thought of, and in Medieval times depicted as a spiral tower, constructed according to Genesis by those living in Shinar seeking to reach heaven. Here are some great examples from Medieval illuminated manuscripts to the Headquarters of Audemars Piguet

Although the new solo show of Rogan Gregory ‘Known Unknown,’ opened last evening at R & Company is about constructing an environment, it is hard not to see that he started his career as a fashion designer. The exhibition is an impressive site-specific installation, immerses the three-story court of the gallery, and consists of biomorphic