Daniella Ohad

​For the occasion of its upcoming exhibition ‘Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes,’ opens April 20th, 2018, the New-York Historical Society collaborates with Stuart Weitzman in a footwear design competition. New York metro-area high school students are invited submit a unique shoe design in one of two categories: Socially-Conscious […]

When I was told that Pernett Perriand and Jacques Barsac have provided photographic material and original documents from their archive as well as consigned one piece (lot #10) to Artcurial’s upcoming monograph design sale French Masters: Charlotte Perriand, I have realized that this event would become into an extraordinary occasion to look at the career of

Ceramic art has enjoyed a revived interest in recent years, and has been starring at the forefront of the collectible design world, which illuminates artists that explore with the clay and take ceramics to new horizons. One of them is Los-Angeles-based American ceramist Jay Kvapil, whose solo show Landscapes has opened last week at Magen

When you walk into Demisch Danant’s new exhibition ‘The Way of the Essential,’ you immediately feel the power of simplicity to enhance everyday life, and the ability to achieve the epitome of chic and elegance through simplicity. The exhibition comes to present the various manifestations of French minimalist design developed from the late 1950s to

Before you plan a visit the newly-opened exhibition ‘Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age’ at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, you have to get prepared. Forget about what you think of as a furniture workshop, and start thinking of science labs, where scientists wearing white coats experimenting with algorithms and digital technology

It has been a long time since the term ‘Bauhaus’ has been capitalized for describing the design culture developed in interwar Germany by the Modern Movement, and with the forthcoming Bauhaus centennial of 2019, we will start seeing more and more international events, exhibitions, and scholarship honoring the innovation and heritage of this pivotal educational

There are many definitions to ‘modern Design.’ To me, it is design that corresponds, represents, and manifests the zeitgeist. And as such, all 111 fashion items presented in the new exhibition ‘Items: Is Fashion Modern?’ organized and curated by Paola Antonelli at MoMA, are ‘modern.’ There are several types of museum shows on fashion, and

What an extraordinary week, working with directors Valeria Parisi and Michele Mally on two TV programs on design and tastemakers. We have visited breathtaking homes, met with fascinating talents, spoke with design legends, explored territories of aesthetics, taste, and chic at the forefront of these realities, and got inspired over and over again. Here are

Achtober is New York City’s Architecture and Design Month, the annual festival of architecture tours, lectures, films, and exhibitions taking place during October. It is an event that comes to celebrate the beauty of New York architecture and to highlight its distinguished fabric. This year the program is particularly rich and interesting. Among the participants

With the wealth of new possibilities introduced by digital technology, many designers have been seeking to reproduce the quality and energy of liquid, the waves and fluidity of the ocean and rivers in solid materials; to freeze powerful waves into three dimensional forms, translating soft textures into hard materials. It always makes me thinking of