Daniella On Design

With his innovative ideas, revolutionary thinking, and groundbreaking practice, Wharton Esherick (1887-1970) was instrumental to the evolution of American design. In fact, Esherick pioneered the concept of design-art during the 30s with his radical artisanal furniture, long before this term was coined to describe artistic process in creating functional objects. Yet, while widely recognized by […]

I love exhibitions that explore connections between visionary artists who never met, but whose art and oeuvre have multiple common chords. The recent show in this manner was opened last week at the Columbus Museum of Art, entitled Wild Earth: JB Blunk and Toshiko Takaezu, comes to explore the parallels between these two American artists

With an intriguing title, Golden Glass is a telling of the story of an ancient artistry technique, loved by the Romans, which has been revived and brought to new horizons by one New York artist, Miriam Ellner. I was first introduced to verre églomisé (the French term for the artistic process of painting on the

“The built environment is often being pulled in opposite directions. While density appears to be a more sustainable solution for people to live together, the scarcity of space usually implies a poor quality of life. Liu Jiakun rethinks the fundamentals of density through cohabitation, crafting an intelligent solution that balances the opposite forces at play.

There’s no mistaking his interiors. Robert Stilin’s domestic spaces are so distinctive that they are instantly recognizable. Furthermore, they do not look as if they belong in any other epoch but the present. The contemporary interior has primarily been characterized by a curated blend of historical and contemporary objects defined by layered narratives; however, Stilin’s

This special house reminds me of my German immigrant grandparents’ house on Mount Carmel in Haifa, which they built in the early 1950s inspired by German Modernist houses they had seen when living in Munich before immigrated to Palestine. This masterpiece that the modernist architect couple Flora Steiger-Crawford and Rudolf Steiger (parents of the architects

“It is difficult if nigh impossible to date David’s interiors – they exist out of time and space.” This is how fashion designer Thom Browne and Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art describe David Kleinberg’s spaces. Their Manhattan historic townhouse interiors he created opens the new

No artist has glorified nature as well as German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), whose exhibition, Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, opened last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. To be honest, I could not wait for this first major retrospective of Friedrich in the US, marking what would have been

His trained eye and remarkable taste have been fashioned throughout his life, and his passion for contemporary design and his faith in its central role in the evolution of culture have become the foundation, the ‘energy’ of award-winning interior designer Francis Sultana. He calls himself an ‘artist’ because of the artistic endeavors embodied in his