Daniella On Design

Congratulating my friend and colleague, architecture historian David Kroyanker, who has contributed more than anyone else to the research and documentation of the built fabric of Jerusalem, known internationally for his seminal series of books and articles about the city’s architecture. His new and super ambitious project, ‘Jerusalem Design – God is in the Details […]

I am pleased to announce that registration to the spring 2017 edition to my couture program ‘Design and Decorative Arts in NYC’ is open now. In exploring the season’s most exciting design events offered in New York City, we will be visiting the season’s best exhibitions, a new design fair, and we will be meeting

Bell–Lloc Winery in Girona and Sant Antoni Bell–Lloc Winery in Girona and Sant Antoni Joan Oliver Library, Senior Citizens Center and Cándida Pérez Gardens in Barcelona Joan Oliver Library, Senior Citizens Center and Cándida Pérez Gardens in Barcelona Office of RCR Arquitects, Olot

I couldn’t have thought of a better way to conclude a successful and fascinating design tour than visiting the studio of Brussels-based designer Maarten de Ceulaer, whose series of furniture ‘Pile of Suitcases’ I adore. A graduate from the Design Academy Eindhoven, de Ceulaer has developed his school project into a successful enterprise, evoking his

When you think of porcelain, you probably think of bone china, or delicate tableware of the type used in fancy dinners; or you may think of an antique blue-and-white ware from China, where porcelain was first developed 2,000 years ago, and from which it had spread to East Asia. But when we entered the Eindhoven-based

I was first introduced to the sculptural, chic furniture in metal and wood by French designer/architect François Thévenin (1901-2016), at Primavera Gallery, and was immediately intrigued by the French flavor of his language, by the superb craftsmanship, and by the signature style that attains his pieces with lightness, airiness, and expressiveness. Active in the French

We have concluded the successful and super fascinating Dutch Design Tour in Brussels, where we first have stopped at new and stunning studio of Belgian designer Xavier Lust, situated in a modernist building in Ixelles, Brussels 19. Lust, whose new pieces will be launched by Ralph Pucci in May, has made sheet metal his principal material

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