Daniella On Design

Since immigrating to the US in the 30s, Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902 –1981), the Hungarian-born modernist, and one of the most prolific figures in the Modern Movement, who started as the youngest student of the Bauhaus, designed mid-century jewels that came to spread the mission and taste for Modernism in this country. Now, one of […]

In furniture design, synthetic resin in its various forms has gradually become the material of our age, in the same way plywood had become the material of the 40s and carbon fibers of the early 2000’s . Resin has a tremendous potential to be formed into fluid forms that capture liquid, oceans, and ice formations,

If there is something we can learn from the British is the way in which they elevate their gifted designers into national treasures. Tate Modern’s Switch House, its new extension by Herzog & de Meuron’s has opened with a display dedicated to British designer Jasper Morrison, one of the most influential product designers of our

With the upcoming celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday next June, we are going to witness events that include an architecture tour that I will be leading, and what will be the most ambitious retrospective of the architect to date, at MoMA. Now, I read that the local government in Banff, Canada has issued

Congratulating my dearest friend, artist/sculptor/designer Ilana Goor whose museum was recently named and recognized as one of world’s best beach museums. For the past twenty years, Goor has developed her home, a 270 year-old gem in Old Jaffa, into one of the most beautiful and distinctive museums in the world, shaping it according to her

Full voice of Chinese contemporary design will be presented by Parisian auction house PIASA in October, with a curated sale dedicated to collectible, unique, and limited edition contemporary Chinese design, representing three generations of designers, some of whom have been known and others will be introduced to European collectors for the first time. This event

As we approach the 15th anniversary to the tragic 9/11, Riva 1920 has issued a table that comes to symbolize that date that came to change the world. When architect Renzo Piano had first designed that table, it was for the project ‘Ground Zero… Ground Heroes’ of Riva 1920, as one of five tables that

Let’s celebrate 117th birthday for Eero Saarinen, the American architect who was born on August 20th, 1910, on the 37th birthday of his father Eliel Saarinen, Cranbrook Academy of Art’s director. Saarinen was the prince of the American design world during the postwar years, and when he died at the age of 51, America was

More than anyone else, it was architecture photographer Julius Shulman who had captured through his lens the glamour aspects of mid-century California modernism, and the lifestyle associated with its architecture. Shulman, who, himself lived in Los Angeles, famously forged close relationships with the local leading Modernists, such as Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and R M