Daniella On Design

The term ‘atelier,’ studio of a professional artist, painter, sculptor, where the principal master and his assistants and apprentices create together, was coined during the Middle Ages, when the system of art education and training was enforced by the guilds. Think about this core idea of the atelier and you can imagine the monumental building […]

I regularly meet Saskia Copper and Aad Krol, founders of Rotterdam-based Galerie VIVID at Design Miami/, the semi-annual fair, where they have been known for presenting the best of the best of Dutch design. The duo whose gallery was one of the world’s first to specialize in collectible contemporary design, founded in 1999, are known

I was first introduced to the work of Wieki Somers Studio when Galerie Kreo exhibited a series of standing lamps in 2013, all inspired by motifs and codes of honor from the Japanese Samurai culture (below). Combined of traditional crafts and various innovative and intriguing materials, from fabrics dipped in resin, through intricate metal mesh

Everything about Dutch designer Frederik Molenschot is monumental, larger than life. His studio in Amsterdam, in which we were hosted as a part of the current Dutch Design Tour which I am leading this week; his light installations and sculptures; his appearance; his personality; his imagination; his vision that reaches the horizon; his heart. A

​Dutch designer Pieke Bergmans is so successful in designing processes that then result in objects, that those processes really making you think differently about design. The objects are energetic, dynamic, dramatic, and full of humor, just like Bergmans herself, perfectly capturing her own personality and identity. Visiting her studio was both memorable and fascinating, because

The most substantial, ambitious, and accomplished aspect of the work of Dutch designer/artist Aldo Bakker is the perfection of beauty. This is what we have learnt this morning, when hosted at his humble studio at the center of Amsterdam. Here, the son of legendary designer and co-founded of Droog Design Gijs Bakker, creates the most

Archipedia is an encyclopedia of architecture by the Society of Architectural Historian, a remarkable organization to which I am proudly belong. It is a great source on American architecture, indexed state by state, to which the architecture survey of the state of Wisconsin has been added, with 774 entries that come to provide a comprehensive

So often I am asked on a good way to learn about the history of design and decorative arts. I am pleased to tell you that finally, a survey course opened to the public will be launched this spring by my alma mater, the Brad Graduate Center. This five-week program, History of Design and Decorative

It was a century ago, in 1917, when Dutch movement/collective De Stijl was founded in Amsterdam. Named after De Stijl magazine, first published in that year by critic and designer Theo van Doesburg, among its members were artists, architects, and designers. They preached for pure abstraction in painting and architecture by reduction to the very

The way makers and designers have shifted boundaries of traditional materials by employing new and cutting edge technologies, has come to shape much of the territory of contemporary design that we find in galleries and museums. Wood is included. Now, the Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia presents an exhibition that comes to explore