Daniella On Design

Brutalist Italy

Italy produced some of the world’s most innovative and exciting Brutalist architecture, which is featured in a new book entiteld Brutalism in Italy: Concrete Architecture from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea, with magnificent photographs by Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego (published by FUEL). Italian Brutalism — ranging from private homes to churches, cemeteries, and […]

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Collecting Postwar French Ceramics with Lebreton

When Lebreton was honored with the the Best Presentation Award at Design Miami/ Paris last week, the Monaco-based gallery’s founders, Karim Mehanna and Alain Lebreton, partners in life and work, saw the moment as a gratifying culmination of their two-decades-long dedication to resurfacing, researching, and promoting postwar French pottery. The award also served as a reminder that

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Ketabi Bourdet on 1980s Design

Comprising one-on-one interviews with international experts, Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights is a Fall 2023 webinar program hosted by Daniella Ohad for Christie’s Education. For the Design Miami/ Forum, Ohad shares highlights from each conversation. This week, it’s Paul Bourdet and Charlotte Ketabi of Ketabi Bourdet in Paris. For Charlotte Ketabi and Paul Bourdet, founders of the eponymous gallery

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Vessels of Knowledge

What defines contemporary design? Negotiating past and future, exploring the world of traditional handcraftsmanship, and introducing provocative and personal innovations while forging a space in design history. Considering this, the work of Israeli designers Noam Dover and Michael Cederbaum can certainly be called ‘contemporary.’ In fact, according to Doug Heller—the legendary dealer who built the

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