Daniella Ohad

The program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, which I have started seven years ago, comes to illuminate and explore the market, history, and connoisseurship of modern and contemporary design. I curate the program season by season according to the shifts, events, and directions of the marketplace. To conclude another successful season, I have initiated a […]

You cannot understand New York City living without knowing the work of Rosario Candela, the most legendary NY architect of the 20s and the 30s. Called ‘the Bernini of the Upper East Side’ by my friend and colleague David Netto, Candela’s career emerged when the culture of the skyscraper had become the touchstone of New

The dining chair by French designer Eugene Guillard (1862-1933), which Robert Zehil Gallery will be presenting at the upcoming Design Miami/Basel, has a long and fascinating history. Guillard was one of a handful young talents working for L’ART NOUVEAU BING, a Parisian gallery who lent its name to the entire movement. Founded by German dealer

​Ever since my teacher, legendary design historian Pat Kirkham published the book ‘Women Designers Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference,’ which accompanied an exhibition by the same name at the Brad Graduate Center, the celebrating of women’s contribution to the story of design has come to be recognized. Various issues of gendered

It is the world of Catholicism, its sacred images, jeweled objects, rituals, and customs, and the way in which their aesthetics have come to shape modern fashion, which the new exhibition ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’ at the Costume Institute of the Met comes to explore. The Met’s medieval and Byzantine collections provide

Contemporary design, we have learnt on Thursday morning from Israeli designer Erez Nevi Pana, is about telling stories, about biographical narrative, and in his case, it grows from the highest level of ethical approach toward the environment, the people, and the animals living on this plant. In a private breakfast which I held at Friedman

It is still possible. Possible to find furniture of historical significance at design fairs. At the current TEFAF New York, held at the Park Avenue Armory, Paris-based dealer Oscar Graf, whose creative efforts focus on turn-of-the-century design masterpieces, presents a pair of chairs which Frank Lloyd Wright designed for the dining room of his Warren

This is to remember legendary handbag designer Judith Leiber who died yesterday at 97, just hours after her husband of 72 years, architect Gerson Leiber passed away at 97 too, both of natural causes. If handbags have become status symbols, cultural icons, and political markers of power and taste, then Judith Leiber has a great

​The term ‘Design Masterpieces’ has come to evoke a lot of different notions and meanings. In the current show, opened this week at 1950 Gallery by my dearest friend Alberto Aquillino, it means great pieces of furniture carefully selected and curated, all from the famed mid-century urban project by Le Corbusier in Chandigah, the capital

This iconic annual event comes to celebrate the New York spring, the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, of which preview I have visited today. This year, it is taking place in a mansion house on 110 East 76th Street, a brilliant selection which provides the perfect backdrop to the glamour interiors, created by some of