Daniella Ohad

On the bucket list of every architecture and design lover, you would find a visit to Villa Rotonda, the country house, which late Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) designed as a summer house, and which is famously set on a hilltop outside of Vicenza, overlooking the dazzling agricultural landscape of Veneto. One of a series

For those collectors for whom design connoisseurship is a drive, there is no better place to find Italian mid-century masterpieces than Milan; and in Milan, there is no better spot than Gallery Rossella Colombari. Rossella, the mind and the amazing taste behind the Gallery is a fourth generation of antiques dealers and collectors, but the first

What happens when two talented forces, an admiring starchitect and a devoted grandson come together to rediscover and resurface an enormous design talent whose history has somewhat ignored? The result is the remarkable retrospective of Italian architect/designer Osvaldo Borsani at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, co-curated by his grandson, architect Tommaso Fantoni and by

My story with Mario Bellini goes back to the 80s. On June 25th, 1987, a month before the birth of my sons, I attended the opening of his retrospective at MoMA. It was a big deal because Bellini was the first living designer, after Charles Eames, to be asked to design his own exhibition at

​When it came to renovate our kitchen, I knew that I wanted it to be urban, minimal, bright, pristine, sustainable, and laboratory-like. In short, I sought for the platonic perfection. While standing on its own as the traditional kitchen is set apart in those New York towers built in the interwar era, it was clear

The Victorians had a strong sense of domesticity, and for the Victorian housewife, beautifying the home and selecting its furnishings, was the way to distinguish her family, to give it its own identity. To document all of these efforts, came the watercolor artist, who visited the home and captured its interiors in their perfection, showcasing

When I left the Guggenheim this morning after previewing the new exhibition ‘Giacometti,’ I had a big smile on my face and in my heart. Because it is exactly how I want to feel when visiting a museum show. There are so many moving moments when exploring the work of this preeminent artist, whose oils,