Daniella Ohad

Congratulations, Joseph Walsh for receiving the prestigious Cultural Award of the American Irish Historical Society. It will be awarded in the upcoming 120th Annual Gold Medal Dinner, which will be held this time at the 583 Park Avenue. As a long-time admirer of Walsh, I was honored this year to curate and moderate the event […]

This week’s session in the program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights was dedicated to the study of the Radical Design Movement in Italy, which celebrated an exceptional time of intellectual creativity and innovation in the world of design world, starting in the 60s. The radicals turned their backs to everything that was associated with modern

I am pleased to tell you that tickets to my upcoming program: ‘Sebastián Errazuriz: Monologues in the Artist’s Studio,’ at the New York School of Design next week (November 1st at 6:oo pm) are available now. The event includes a screening of the new documentary by Palu Abadia (the film is a recipient of the

Let’s remember American architect Paul Marvin Rudolph (1918 –1997) who would have been 99 today. While growing up in traditional Alabama, he had become an avant-gardist, immersing in modernism from the time he studied under Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius at the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Rudolph served as the Chair of the famed

If there is a single interior designer, or tastemaker I should say, who is more synonymous with the new wave of interior décor which is based on the power of collectible design to transform spaces than anyone else, it is certainly Paris-based Jacques Grange. He inherited this practice from his first employer and mentor Henri

German-American artist Josef Albers, among the most accomplished educators of the Bauhaus and founder of Black Mountain College, has come to inspire generations and generations of artists through his seminal handbook ‘Interaction of Color,’ where he argues that all color is relative and that we never see a color isolated but always in relation to

Let’s celebrate the 20th anniversary to the event that has changed the world of architecture in our time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in the Basque country’s city of Bilbao. It has become the most glamorized, sensational, and publicized building of our era, often described as the first building of the twenty-first century, and credited for

In an age, when personalized taste has become a commodity, and designing a process of thinking, education has been valued as the most substantial agent for elevating, polishing our taste. The role of the tastemaker has not been as crucial as it is today since the late years of the 19th century, when possibilities were

The Design Curio is one of the more exciting programs in the landscape of the collectible design fairs. This platform, which was initiated by Design Miami/ in 2014, comes to provide designers and curators with an opportunity to present installations in the format of cabinets of curiosity within the Fair. Here is an early look

 Is architecture by Jewish Architects is Jewish Architecture? A question that the 4th International Congress on Jewish Architecture in Hamburg, a joint project of the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg, and the Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture, Braunschweig/Jerusalem comes to address. It comes to re‐examine the biographies of Jewish