Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2020

Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, collecting design has emerged as a discipline in its own right; one that dominates high-brow interiors and attracts those who value living with the finest design. The market has become a global barometer of trend forecasting, signifying the language, directions, and taste of our time. Collecting design has come forward as a source of taste-making and trend forecasting, generating market reports, art fairs, museum exhibitions, research projects, scholarship, monographs, and endless headlines. Collecting design inspires scholarly analysis, art fairs, museum exhibitions, and monographs, and was cited recently by the Wall Street Journal as a lucrative avenue of investment.

This unique program is directed by design historian Dr. Daniella Ohad, and comes to educate architects, interior designers, design lovers, and art collectors in this fascinating world. It focuses on various themes which have a key place in the collectible design world, with a strong focus on the history of modern design and the story of contemporary design. Lectures are accompanied by conversations with some of the world's experts in this territory: curators, collectors, dealers, and scholars.

For the Fall 2020 season of Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, instructor Daniella Ohad will host James Zemaitis and Evan Snyderman on Objects USA; Robert Kaplan on the legendary collectors of Arts and Crafts; David Adhadeff on the landscape of contemporary design; Samuel Amoia on his curated interiors in furniture in minerals; Jim Elkind on the legacy of the American Studio Movement. It includes a visit to a design fair and to an auction house. 

About the Instructor
Daniella Ohad is a design historian, educator, writer, curator, and influencer, who  received her Ph.D. from Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture. She lectures and publishes widely on design history, theory, collecting, contemporary architecture and design, and the decorative arts. She has taught at Parsons the New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and Bard College, and speaks on a variety topics related to design culture worldwide.

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