Daniella On Design

Anyone with love for American design knows that the most glorious chapter in its history was rooted in 18th-century Rhode Island. As a graduate from the program of Museum Studies: Decorative Arts at F.I.T (a program no longer in existence), I was fortunate to have Marilyn Johnson, the legendary curator of decorative arts at the […]

One of the most exciting and intriguing events of the upcoming Biennale des Antiquaries, which opens in Paris in September, will be presented by Artcurial, a 10-day exhibition leading up to a sale entitled ’20 Year Friendship with Diego Giacometti: Brollo Collection.’ The show traces a friendship between a couple of collectors, Eliane and Daniel

In the film on collecting furniture by George Nakashima, which I am creating these summer days for the New York School of Interior Design, there is a special chapter devoted to the legendary collection of Dr. Arthur and Evelyn Krosnick of Princeton. Friends of the Nakashimas, He was the medical director of the Princeton Diabetes

If there is one car which has always captured my imagination, its definitely the Jaguar XKSS, a racing car, which I know from photos. Originally produced in 1956–1957, only 25 were produced, nine of which were destroyed by fire at the Jaguar factory shortly after completion. This week, the company has announced to be producing

Among my favorite design sales, are Sotheby’s Contemporary Living auctions, held bi-annually in New York, presenting the selection and taste of interior designers with a particular knowledge in the collectible design market. This time, for an auction held on July 28th, capturing an intriguing dialogue between design, photographs, and prints, interior designer Fernando Santangelo has

The seminal exhibition ‘Modern Architecture: International Exhibition,’ which opened at MoMA in 1932 and coined the term The International Style, showcased the architecture of the European pioneers of the Modern Movement, Gropius, Mies, Le Corbusier, and J. P. Oud, and came to define the modernism in formal and aesthetic terms. It is considered today as

Here is a book I recommend for hot summer days, by my friend Christopher Bascom Rawlins (forwarded by Alastair Gordon), ‘Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction,’ published by Metropolis Books. The first attempt to tell the cultural history of Fire Island’s modernist homes, built in the gay community of the Pines

David Bowie was an influential musician, actor, and icon, and to me, a symbol of the Space Age era. With his ‘Space Oddity,’ which he performed and released as a music single in July 1969, telling the fictional story of Major Tom, an astronaut who casually slips the bonds of the world to journey beyond

The UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has named 17 projects by Le Corbusier in its World Heritage Sites, recognizing the cultural or physical significance of the architect for expressing “the solutions that the Modern Movement sought to apply during the 20th century to the challenges of inventing new architectural techniques to respond to

When Brazilian painter Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) decided to start designing gardens in the early 1930s, and to transform his abstract art into landscape architecture, he could not have imagined that it is in this discipline that he would make the most spectacular career, becoming perhaps the best known garden designer of the twentieth century.