Daniella On Design

https://daniellaondesign.com/blog/on-interiors-in-pink In her excellent book on the sexual politics of taste in the mid-century years, called ‘As Long as its Pink,’ design historian Penny Sparke relates the color pink to women’s taste. In those years, taste was gendered, the interior associated with femininity, and ‘design’ was the territory of men. I was thinking of Sparke’s […]

Another victory to MoMA’s design curator Julie Kinchen with her new exhibition “How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior,” opens this weekend on the third floor of the Museum. The title, borrowed from the iconic poster of the 1927 Werkbund exhibition in Stuttgart which also opens the show (below), comes to suggest the

Since interviewing him for my film on collecting Paul Evans, I have become intrigued by the work of interior designer Tony Ingrao, so last evening we have made our way to Tribeca, to see a show he curated at R & Company, called ‘Blue Heaven.’ It is a part of a long series of exhibitions,

​One of the best parts in the fascinating talk by Dr. Jennifer Goff, Curator of Furniture, Silver, and the Eileen Gray Collection at the National Museum of Ireland in my class on collecting design this morning, was that devoted to the carpets that the Parisian-based Irish designer created from the teens through the 70s. It

What a wonderful contribution to the story of sustainable architecture. Here is an organic pavilion, called ‘Perspectives,’ a structure covered with Cedar Shingles, set at Surrey Hills Court, in the UK. Commissioned by Surrey Hills Arts and the Mittal Foundation, and designed by Giles Miller, it comes to provide a restful spot for contemplation within

Yesterday, the first day of the fall, we have visited the newly-opened Demisch Danant Gallery, which has recently moved from its Chelsea home into a new location at the heart of Greenwich Village, designed by Rafael de Cárdenas. The opening of the new space has coincided with an exhibition entitled “Made in France,” which comes

Throughout his life in New York, American designer Vladimir Kagan (1927-2016), who was born in Germany to a Russian cabinetmaker and emigrated to the United States in the 30s to flee the Nazis, has established himself, not only as one of America’s greatest furniture designers, but also as one of New York most beloved personalities.

Yesterday, a glorious autumn day and the last day of filming of the upcoming documentary Collecting Paul Evans, turned to be a day of remembering the designer in the most personal way. We drove from Manhattan to the studio of Dorsey Reading, who was Evans’ first hand for decades, and who was responsible for crafting

It has been too long since I have visited Espasso, the Tribeca-based gallery which specializes in modern and contemporary Brazilian furniture and design. Too long I say because last night, I made my way downtown for the occasion of the opening of its wonderful exhibition of new work by Brazilian designer Claudia Moreira Salles, and

I am pleased to tell you that registration to the fall season of my program Design and Decorative Arts in NYC has started, and that it is set to begin next month. I am opening two classes, one on Wednesday mornings and one on Thursday mornings (starting October 19th and October 20th). This program, in