Daniella Ohad

It is hard to count the centenaries celebrated in 2017 as there are so many of them: the Russian Revolution, the British Mandatory over Palestine; birthdate of John F. Kennedy, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Indira Gandhi; the publication of the first journal of De Stijl, just to name a few. 2017 also marks the centenary […]

It was my great honor to host Mark McDonald in my class this morning, in the fall 2017 edition of the program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, at the New York School of Interior Design. Mark knows about collectible postwar American design more than anyone I know, and he has generously shared his immense knowledge

Think about walking deep into a forest painted in white, where everything is pure, sleek, glowing, and perfectly white, from the ground, to the sky, and all in between. This is exactly how I felt when visiting the new solo exhibition of Brussels-based designer Jos Devriendt (b. 1964) at Demisch Danant. Entitled ‘I AM I,’

Another great achievement for Magen H Gallery with a monographic exhibition ‘Pierre Chapo: A Modern Craftsman,’ opens tomorrow. I am grateful to be asked to write an introduction in the book published in conjunction with this important show, which comes to assemble new information and to reveal a French talent who has remained underappreciated in

Today I would like to write about one chair which is closed to my heart and which is offered in the upcoming Masterworks auction at Wright Chicago. It was designed by Italian, Turin-based brilliant architect Gino Levi-Montalcini (1902-74) whose only sister, Rita, was a Noble Prize recipient for Physiology. He started his career in the

We all have our dream house. That beautiful, dazzling, refined home, of which image is changing as we get more educated, more experienced, more intellectual, better traveled, as our taste emerge. For Delphine and Reed Krakoff, the dream house is such a sound reality, that they have jointly created six of them, six dream houses

Registration to the second section of my flag program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights at the New York School of Interior Design is open now. Focusing on collecting modern and contemporary design, its place in the dynamic market, and its status as the global barometer of trend forecasting, high-brow interior design, and an avenue of

One of the most striking features that I have discovered this morning in the new work by Vincent Dubourg, exhibited in a solo show, Vortex, at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, is the sense of the lightness, almost airiness that characterizes all of his forms. The DNA of the material, aluminum, so heavy and solid, against the

https://daniellaondesign.com/blog/the-luxury-of-beauty I cannot think of a better way to celebrate a beautiful New York fall weekend than with a visit at the Neue Galerie; or of a better place to be surrounded by beauty than in its current exhibition ‘Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932: The Luxury of Beauty.’ This exquisite retrospective, co-curated by Christian Witt-Dörring and Janis

The expansive and comprehensive design collection of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, comprising of 220,000 objects, is now available online, following an extensive project of digitization of the collection. While the images of the objects, spanning three centuries are all protected by copyright, they now can be used for educational and research purposes. What