Daniella Ohad Smith

Daniella Ohad Smith

Daniella Ohad Smith (born 1961) is a design historian, educator, writer, and critic on 20th-century and contemporary design culture and design history, living in New York City. She publishes in various publications on interior design, such as Journal of Interior Design and Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture, by Berg Publishers. Her interviews with designers, architects, and collectors are published regularly in such magazines as aRude and Designer. She is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts, and for many years was a faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design. She is hosting the design program On Design, which explores the territory of design through the concept that design is a cultural phenomenon. She is a member of various committees of New York City art museums, and lectures worldwide on collecting design, taste, decorative arts, and domestic culture.

Ohad Smith comes from the Freuchtwanger family, whose family tree book, dating back to the mid 18th century, was updated in 2009. She is the niece of music and theater critic Michael Ohad, and the great-niece of the German playwright and novelist Lion Feuchtwanger. Her family was among the founders of the Hebrew University and the banking infrastructure in Palestine. She studied at Tel Aviv University, at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she received Master's in Museology; she earned the Ph.D. degree from the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, which was among the first Ph.D. awarded by Bard College. Her dissertation (2006) investigates the cultural and design aspects of hotels and tourism in British Mandate Palestine. It discusses such icons as the King David Hotel, the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the Park Hotel in Jaffa, owned by Plato von Ustinov, grandfather of Peter Ustinov, and an unrealized hotel designed by Erich Mendelsohn in Haifa. She has published articles on such topics as T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, collecting design and the marketplace, Domestic Culture, and exhibition reviews. She lives with her family in New York City.

References

Exhibition reviews on SS Normandie: Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/idacj/2011/00000002/00000001/art00008;jsessionid=30jci9itf3shf.alexandra

Article on T.H. Robsjohn-GibbingsT.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings: Crafting a Modern Home for Postwar America,” Journal of Interior Design 34 (1) (September 2008): 39-55. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1939-1668.2008.00005.x/full

Article on Hotel DesignHotel Design in British Mandate Palestine: Modernism and the Zionist Vision,” Journal of Israel History 29 (1) (2010). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13531041003595035

Recognition by the Bruno Zevi Award http://www.fondazionebrunozevi.it/premio2010/vincitore2010.htm

External links

Faculty Biography for Daniella Ohad Smith from the School of Visual Arts



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