Daniella Ohad Smith
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Daniella Ohad Smith 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.
Design history
Design history is the study of objects of design in their historical and stylistic contexts.With a broad definition, the contexts of design history include the social, the cultural, the economic, the political, the technical and the aesthetic...
, living in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. She publishes in various publications on interior design
Interior design
Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
, such as Journal of Interior Design and Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture, by Berg Publishers
Berg Publishers
Berg Publishers is an academic publishing company based in Oxford, England that was founded in 1983 by Marion Berghahn. Berg publishes monographs, textbooks and reference works as well as journals. Concentrations are fashion, design, anthropology, history and cultural studies...
. 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
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
, and for many years was a faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School For Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is the art and design college of The New School university. It is located in New York City's Greenwich Village, and has produced artists and designers such as Marc Jacobs, Dean and Dan Caten, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Jane...
. 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
Taste
Taste is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food, certain minerals, and poisons, etc....
, decorative arts, and domestic culture.
Ohad Smith comes from the Freuchtwanger family, whose family tree
Family tree
A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...
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
Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger was a German-Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht....
. Her family was among the founders of the Hebrew University and the banking infrastructure in Palestine
Palestine
Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
. She studied at Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...
, at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Fashion Institute of Technology
The Fashion Institute of Technology, generally known as FIT, is a State University of New York college of art, business, design, and technology connected to the fashion industry, with an urban campus located on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of...
, where she received Master's in Museology
Museology
Museology is the diachronic study of museums and how they have established and developed in their role as an educational mechanism under social and political pressures.-Overview:...
; she earned the Ph.D. degree from the Bard Graduate Center
Bard Graduate Center
The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture is a graduate institute affiliated with Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York....
: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, which was among the first Ph.D. awarded by Bard College
Bard College
Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...
. 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
King David Hotel
The King David Hotel is a 5-star hotel in Jerusalem, Israel. Opened in 1931, the hotel was built with locally quarried pink limestone and was founded by Ezra Mosseri, a wealthy Egyptian Jewish Banker. To this day the hotel remains one of the most prominent and prestigious hotels in Israel, and...
, the American Colony Hotel
American Colony Hotel
The American Colony Hotel is a luxury hotel located in a historic building in Jerusalem which previously housed the utopian American-Swedish community known as the American Colony.-History:...
in Jerusalem, the Park Hotel in Jaffa
Jaffa
Jaffa is an ancient port city believed to be one of the oldest in the world. Jaffa was incorporated with Tel Aviv creating the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. Jaffa is famous for its association with the biblical story of the prophet Jonah.-Etymology:...
, owned by Plato von Ustinov, grandfather of Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...
, and an unrealized hotel designed by Erich Mendelsohn
Erich Mendelsohn
Erich Mendelsohn was a Jewish German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas.-Early life:...
in Haifa
Haifa
Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
. 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.
External links
Faculty Biography for Daniella Ohad Smith from the School of Visual Arts- http://dcrit.sva.edu/view/author/daniella_ohadsmith/