Daniella On Design

Luigi Caccia Dominioni (1913-2016), the Milanese architect who was one of those who pioneered industrial design in Italy died last night at 103. A graduate from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1936, he was mainly active during the postwar years, between 1950 and 1970, taking part in the reconstruction of Italy after WWII and in […]

​Design Curio is a brilliant idea introduced by Design Miami to provide a platform to emerging galleries who are required to present total environments of objects created by a single designer. It has emerged as one of the more surprising, unorthodox, fresh, and inventive aspects of the Fair, presented along Design Miami’s core galleries. In

Think about  a stool that looks like a rock of pearls; a Rococo cabinet crafted of thousands of steel rings welded together into a mesh; a wall sculpture created of dense oyster shells; a piece of furniture made of roped bamboo cast in bronze. These are not just fictional objects, but what I saw when

​Spending the morning with Ingrid Donat and her son Julien Lombrail in viewing the solo exhibition of her work at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York was a great privilege, for my students and myself. The two have opened up about the special relationship between a mother artist (Donat) and her son who acts as her

After visiting the opening night of The Salon Art + Design last evening, I am so proud and pleased to be a member of the honorary committee of this remarkable, NYC’s best design/art fair, which takes place annually at the Park Avenue Armory. I would like to congratulate Jill Bokor and Sandy Smith for a

The theme of class today in the course the History of the Modern Interior, at the New York School of Interior Design, is one of my favorite to teach. Entitled ‘The American Home during the Age of Mad Men,’ it investigates the home during nearly two crucial decades, from the end of WWII in 1945

This morning, I had the honor to host, at the course Collecting Design which I teach at the New York School of Interior Design the charismatic Renaud Vuaillat in a fascinating and animated discussion on collectible contemporary design made in France, and on the program that he has initiated at his Twenty First Gallery in

I clearly remember the first time I have seen the work of Korean artist/designer Byung Hoon Choi, because his language, which is so well rooted in Zen Buddhism, had appealed to me as a yoga practitioner from the very beginning. His minimalist furniture and objects are typically made of clay, granite, and stones, and his imagery

​There is only one architect, who, with a single building which he designed in the early 30s, has become the most admired 20th-century architect today, a myth. A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum comes to reveal the story behind the legend called Pierre Chareau. The exquisite show which was designed by Diller Scofidio +

The name Marguerita Mergentime (1894-1941) is still foreign to most design historians, but not for long, as the New-York-based textile designer who was active in the interwar years, creating linens, towels, and china, will be the subject of a monograph published next year. Her stylish apartment, which she shared with her husband Charles at the