Daniella Ohad

This is a topic that has a special place in my heart, not only because it was the theme of my Ph.D. dissertation, entitled ‘Hotel Design in British Mandate Palestine: Modernism and the Zionist Vision,’ but also because I have come from a German Zionist family who had contributed immensely to the building of the […]

​This annual design program has already become synonymous with the end of the summer and the beginning of the new season. It is the exhibition held at R & Company every September, curated by a guest interior designer, selecting objects from the gallery’s collection and creating interior scheme. The choices are always brilliant. This time,

Here is a rare opportunity for collectors of architecture to acquire a real icon, Case Study House #10. No other project had captured the imagination of Americans living during Mad Men era more than the influential Case Study House Program. This experimental project that came to promote American residential architecture in California, was sponsored by

The new coffee book “Ornament is Crime: Modernist Architecture” by Matt Gibberd and Albert, co-founders of a London-based real estate agency, is a celebration of the poetry of modernism. Named after Adolf Loos’ seminal essay and lecture of 1908, this publication hails architecture sans ornament with black-and-white images illuminated by relevant quotes by architects, poets,

​When we think of Noah’s Ark, the enormous vessel in the Genesis, by which God spared Noah and remnant of all the world’s animals from the big flood, one of the most beloved biblical stories, we tend to think of new beginnings, of spiritual temptation, of a white dove, and the constant transformation of human kind. But for

I will be honored to host in the fall edition of the program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, at the New York School of Interior Design the iconic design dealer and collector Mark McDonald, who will speak about his personal relationships with American design legends. Coincidently his collection will be offered for sale at Rago

French legendary decorator Alberto Pinto (1943-2012) had a golden touch, and so everything that he created was opulent and luxurious. While he was the decorator to aristocrats, royalty, and famed financiers across the globe, the style he promoted was always and purely French. Pinto had never moved away from Louis XVI furniture, 18th-century decorative arts,

Let’s remember the super influential architect Louis Henry Sullivan on his birthday (b. September 3, 1856). Known as the ‘father of skyscrapers’, the Chicago-based architect and the mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright, had contributed more than anyone else to the rebuilding of Chicago after the 1873 Great Fire (which destroyed 3.3 square miles of the

Registration to the fall season of my flag program Design and Decorative Arts in NYC is open now. This 12-year course comes to provide the full experience of the season’s most exciting design events. Focusing on design culture and the decorative arts, this ten-session program examines periods, styles, and idioms in modern and contemporary design

Since I was introduced to the work of London-based designer Gareth Neal in the MAD’s exquisite exhibition Against the Grain, he has emerged as one of the intriguing voices in the landscape of contemporary design. Neal’s objects and furniture bring together advanced technology with dazzling beauty, and it seems that all design scholars agree that