Daniella On Design

When you drive east 57th Street from the West Side Highway, you can see it. A futuristic, triangular, metallic low-rise building encircling a courtyard, that spans the entire block, and looks as if it came from a utopian drawing of a German Expressionist visionary in the 20s, a high-tech pyramid. Via 57 West is a […]

There are dozens building projects and conversations in NYC, but this one has captured my interest from the first moment. Called ‘Cast Iron House,’ this late nineteen-century building, located in Tribeca, has been converted to condominiums by Pritzker Prize winner, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. With its neoclassical, ornate facade, it represents the best of New

The Design Museum in London has published its anticipated list for the tenth anniversary of its annual exhibition and awards, named after the insurance company Beazley. Comprises 62 nominations, it spreads across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport. Selected by a panel of distinguished international designers, curators and creatives, the awards showcase

The prestigious and wonderful Historic Houses Association (HHA) Restoration Award for 2017, sponsored by Sotheby’s, was awarded to Glynde Place in East Sussex. It comes to recognize the dedication of owners to the care and sympathetic restoration of the historic buildings that they own, inhabit, and share with the public. Glynde Place has been owned

I was first introduced to the furniture in welded American currency by Vermont-based Johnny Swing when the memorable design collection of event designer Robert Isabell was offered for sale at Sotheby’s in 2009. It has since become a blue chip accessory, included in the old Four Seasons Restaurant, in Storm King Art Center, and Chatsworth

‘What’s My Line?’ was a game show produced by CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967. It required panelists to question a contestant in order to determine his or her identity and occupation. Here is the episode of June 3, 1967, when the guest was American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 89 year old at the

I was first introduced to the remarkable work of French sculptor and furniture designer, Alain Douillard (1929-2017) who died last week in a 2010 retrospective at Magen H Gallery. Metal was his tool and he had mastered it during nearly seven-decade career, from iron to precious metals. Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Nantes

There is a fundamental difference between architectural furniture and furniture inspired by architecture. The first, with iconic examples by Mies, Le Corbusier, George Nakashima, and Jean Prouve, manifests principles and aesthetic sensibility that stand at the core of architecture; the second includes furniture influenced by particular buildings. When Brasília, the new national capital of Brazil

The name of Harley J. Earl (1893 – 1969) is rarely known today to those without a special interest in design history, but the American car designer was so influential and powerful during the interwar years and the age of Mad Men, that he became a brand name known to millions living in suburbia America. Earl was not

There was nothing un-glamour about Kenneth Jay Lane (1932-2017) who died last week at his home in Manhattan. Not his jewelry, not his image, not his celebrities friends and clients, and not his dandy appearance. When I first entered the world of design in the early 90s, Lane was a very famous man, so famous