Daniella On Design

With mid-century Brazilian furniture moving forward and into the mainstream of the collectible design market, becoming the subject of publications, auctions, and exhibitions, I would like to tell you about a beautiful venture, called Studio 55, which is taking shape these days in Los Angeles (opening on September 21st). It is an ambitious project of […]

Congratulating my two friends Lisa Cohen and Suzy Slesin, for the wonderful second issue of their beautiful new magazine Galerie (published by Hudson Media). With the inflation in design magazines, both in print and digital, it seems that it would be almost impossible to introduce a new approach into this arena. But the duo, Cohen,

 In its curated design sales, Parisian auction house PIASA has advanced various chapters in the collectible design market, including Brazilian design, Chinese contemporary design, and now, it its upcoming exhibition and auction, entitled ‘Italian Design and the Fabulous 1950s of Gio Ponti,’ mid-century design. The auction, which will take place on October 12th, will highlight

I was first introduced to the work of Studio Formafantasma, the Amsterdam-based design duo at Gallery Libby Sellers in London a couple of years ago. The Italian duo Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin are the talents behind Studio Formafantasma, and like other graduates from the Design Academy of Eindhoven, they create conceptual, fresh, unorthodox design,

It is hard to believe that it has been 15 years since the day that came to change the world – September 11th 2001, when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, once the tallest buildings in the world, designed by the American architect Minoru Yamasaki in 1965 and completed in 1973, were destroyed

The archives of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum span objects from ancient times to the 21st century. Now, that the Museum has completed a digitization project, 92% of the collection has become available online. This ambitious project feeds into the museum’s overarching digital strategy, which is to give visitors as much interactive access to

If you want to understand what is abstract-conceptual design, go to the new exhibition, ‘50 Manga Chairs,’ by Japanese design group Nendo, at Friedman Benda Gallery. While at first glance, the gallery looks like a storage of chairs of various shapes, projecting to different directions, when you look at them closely, you realize that they

​For design historians interested to study and analyze the modern interior, documentation or, I should say a lack of documentation, is often the central issue with which those studying this territory have struggled. Interiors are ephemeral, short-lived, and quickly changed with transformations of vogue and taste. While interiors have been shaped by the culture and

Yesterday we went to the Met Breuer, the former Whitney Museum, now the Met’s new space dedicated to modern and contemporary art, to view two exhibitions, “Arbus: In the Beginning,” and ‘‘Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.” The presentation of the first is stunning, with each of the photographs framed in black and hung on a gray

With an increase in interest in collecting studio ceramics, Greenwich collector Martha Vida has recently established a free searchable database for American studio ceramics and pottery produced since the end of World War II, called the Dictionary of American Studio Ceramics, 1946 to Present, and its available online. This electronic database includes a listing of