Daniella On Design

​When we think of Noah’s Ark, the enormous vessel in the Genesis, by which God spared Noah and remnant of all the world’s animals from the big flood, one of the most beloved biblical stories, we tend to think of new beginnings, of spiritual temptation, of a white dove, and the constant transformation of human kind. But for […]

I will be honored to host in the fall edition of the program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, at the New York School of Interior Design the iconic design dealer and collector Mark McDonald, who will speak about his personal relationships with American design legends. Coincidently his collection will be offered for sale at Rago

French legendary decorator Alberto Pinto (1943-2012) had a golden touch, and so everything that he created was opulent and luxurious. While he was the decorator to aristocrats, royalty, and famed financiers across the globe, the style he promoted was always and purely French. Pinto had never moved away from Louis XVI furniture, 18th-century decorative arts,

Let’s remember the super influential architect Louis Henry Sullivan on his birthday (b. September 3, 1856). Known as the ‘father of skyscrapers’, the Chicago-based architect and the mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright, had contributed more than anyone else to the rebuilding of Chicago after the 1873 Great Fire (which destroyed 3.3 square miles of the

Registration to the fall season of my flag program Design and Decorative Arts in NYC is open now. This 12-year course comes to provide the full experience of the season’s most exciting design events. Focusing on design culture and the decorative arts, this ten-session program examines periods, styles, and idioms in modern and contemporary design

Since I was introduced to the work of London-based designer Gareth Neal in the MAD’s exquisite exhibition Against the Grain, he has emerged as one of the intriguing voices in the landscape of contemporary design. Neal’s objects and furniture bring together advanced technology with dazzling beauty, and it seems that all design scholars agree that

The exhibition ‘Breathing Color’ at the Design Museum makes you think differently about color, leads you to understand that color is way more complex than we tend to think of it, and ultimately brings you to fall in love with color. Not with specific color, blue, or red, or pink, but rather with the way

Even if you don’t know that co-curator Christopher Wilk has devoted years to creating he exhibition Plywood: Material of the Modern World, you immediately sense that your visit at the V&A is an extraordinary experience. In fact, this small, jeweled exhibition can be utilized as a case study on how to create a great show

The name of famed American Pulitzer-Prize winner playwright Edward Franklin Albee (1928-2016) is known for his plays that examine modern conditions, such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). Now, that his www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2017/collection-edward-albee-n09678.htmlentire collection is offered by Sotheby’s for the benefit The Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk, we can get a

The SS Normandie is remembered now only for its remarkable design, but also for its extraordinarily elegance and the global touristic experience that it offered. It had it all. Not only was it the largest, heaviest, and fastest, but also the most celebrated ocean liner of the Jazz Age – a floating magnificent palace with