Daniella On Design

Visiting the new show The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, which will open at the Cooper Hewitt tomorrow, is like stepping into a dream world, the world of Great Gatsby, or Manhattan skyscrapers, glamour American in the eve of the Great Depression. You want to open the magnificent lacquered gates (made for the […]

If handbags have become status symbols, cultural icons, and political markers of power, then Judith Leiber has a great role in attaining them with this charisma. At least in the United States. Her bags have a strong New York identity and can be found in many stylish wardrobes scattered in the city, not to mention

We all know that origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. In recent years, the forms have been revisited and the term borrowed when referring to folding masses in architecture and design. It is when flat sheets of such materials as wood, stone, metal, and concrete are transformed through folding. Here are a

One of my favorite photography competitions, which presents stunning images of architecture, the Sony World Photography Awards has announced its winners of the 2017 open competition in the architecture category; unfortunately the Professional Section does not include a category for architecture. The top prize was awarded to British architect Tim Cornbill for his ‘Oculus,’ capturing

In his new book ‘What’s so great about the Eiffel Tower?’ (published by Laurence King Publishing), architecture critic Jonathan Glancey takes the challenge of telling the history of architecture’s masterpieces through 70 examples, presenting them in a fresh, unusual way, that comes to lead the reader into thinking slightly differently on architecture. In selecting some

When you see her series of Totems in marble and in ceramics, which will be presented at the Milan Design Week next week, you’ll immediately know that Beirut-based designer Karen Chekerjian’s language is rooted in the Italian radical design movement of the 60s. It was as a student at the DOMUS Academy in Milan, that

Let’s celebrate the birthday of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe who was born on March 27, 1886, coined the famed slogan ‘less is more,’ and forged the most spectacular and radical career spanning the formative years of modern architecture. Born in the ancient German town of Aachen, Mies started his career at the Berlin office

As mid-century Brazilian furniture been discovered and no longer considered the last  largely unknown modernist design, Brazil’s contemporary design has been flourished. Just as the pioneers of modernism who utilized local materials, and particularly rich and textured hardwoods to achieved design which was not only full of grace, but also represented Brazilian identity, so those

It is hard to believe, but this week marks the end of another successful lecture tour in Tel Aviv and we will be packing and travel home. Every morning, when we look outside of the window in the beautiful apartment at the center of Tel Aviv, we can see an architecture marvel, one of Israel’s

On April 25th, New York University Department of Art History will hold a lecture entitled ‘A Challenge or a Gift? Conserving the Original Building Materials of Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute for Biological Studies,’ with Kenneth Itle, Associate Principal and Kyle Normandin, Associate Principal, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. One of the most beloved architecture icons,