Daniella On Design

Wajima has been the cradle of Japanese lacquer art since the craft was brought from neighboring Korea to Japan thousands of years ago. The distinctive style developed in the port city known as Wajima-nuri and made in urushi—the sap of the lacquer tree—has become synonymous with high quality and innovation in Japanese decorative. At present, […]

When Robert Venturi was 66 years old in 1991, he received the Pritzker Prize (known as the Nobel Prize of architecture). He was praised by the jury for merging art and architecture like no one before him, and his influential treatise, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1967), has been credited for diverting the mainstream of

In the early 2000s when Los Angeles-based designer David Wiseman first entered the world of design as a fresh graduate from RISD, the contemporary furniture at the forefront of the newly emerged design market took on minimalistic sensibilities. It was not modernism nor postmodernism, but an innovative and personal expressions of new and organic type

If we have witnessed the rise of studio clay furniture in recent years, the new collection by Montana-based artist Casey Zablocki certainly brings a fresh approach. Montana is renowned for its special local clays, and has emerged as a center for American ceramic art since the 1940s. The present community, nestled in the heart of

When Emmy award winning husband and wife documentary filmmakers Tracey and Jake Gorst moved to Litchfield, CT in 2017, they could not have imagined that what they would discover would end up inspiring a new passion and subsequent labor-intensive magical project. Producing films focused on architecture was not new to them, however, it was in

OoNomathotholo meanst Ancestral Whispers. One of my favorite exhibitions at the opening of the season is entitled OoNomathotholo: Ancestral Whispers, a monograph showing the new body of work by South African artist Andile Dyalvane (b. 1978) at Friedman Benda. In recent years, Andile has emerged as one of the more interesting artists based in South

I did not know anything about French jeweler André Chervin (b. 1927), nor about his New York City atelier Carvin French, before entering the exhibition Enchanting Imagination: The Objets d’Art of André Chervin and Carvin French Jewelers at the New York Historical Society. For over six decades, Carvin French has become one of the most esteemed

What comes to mind when you think of Italian lifestyle? I think of Fiat, Prada, Vespa, Ponti, Armani, and Bialetti. The Bialetti aluminum Moka stovetop coffee maker is one of the most recognizable and classic products in the history of modern design, a staple of Italian culture. While I am not a coffee drinker, we

Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. Part II is a 5-session course, providing an overview of Fin de siècle, of the turn of the 20th century, among the most exciting periods in design and architectural history. Each talk in the series will be