Daniella On Design

I love Grand Hotels. I am talking about those large luxurious hotels built in traditional architectural style, with fairy tale ball rooms, grand dining rooms, in the manner of “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” These hotels has come to provide an extraordinary and glamorous touristic experience since first born in the 19th century, but are vanishing. […]

​​If you happen to be in London this weekend, there is one mandatory stop that you are ought to plan, a visit to Masterpiece London, one of the world’s most beautiful fairs, located in the gorgeous Royal Hospital Chelsea. With eliminating the section of luxury goods and rather focusing on art/design/antiques, the six-year old Masterpiece

                                                                                      In the class devoted to the American Studio Movement this morning at the New York School of

A strong debate feeds the XV International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, which opened last month, under the directorship of Chilean Pritzker Prize-winner Alejandro Aravena. Serving as the world’s most important showcase of architectural theory and culture, the Biennale has moved between socially engaged themes artistic expressions, similar to the two streams that have

New York City is not going to be the same after legendary fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, who died today at 87. I am sad, sad, sad, because Cunningham was a part of the New York City that I know. He was our treasure and he was everywhere. Always hovering on 57th Street, his favorite block,

This week, we began shooting the film on collecting George Nakashima, and today, we spent the day at the George Nakashima Woodworker in New Hope, Pennsylvania. As architect, designer and thinker, Nakashima called himself woodworker. He integrated work, life, and the natural world which he admired, when crafting furniture that grew out of his philosophy

Before Frank Gehry, there was Frank Lloyd Wright, and before him, Stanford White (1853-1906) the ultimate American star-architect. White was a true star, when designing some of New York’s best and most influential neoclassical structures during the Gilded Age, as a partner of the firm McKim, Mead & White. While his personal life was so

If for Alexander McQueen fashion was a form of art and for Calvin Klein, a form of identity, then for Isaac Mizrahi, fashion is a form of entertainment. And this fact is carried throughout the new show at the Jewish Museum ‘Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History.’ Thank you, Kelly Taxter, co-curator of the exhibition for

If Julius Shulman is known for creating images which brought modern architecture to the American mainstream, and Ezra Stoller as the “chief enabler of our experiences of modern architecture,” John Samuel Margolies (1940-2016), who died last month at 76, can be crowned as the photographer of America’s vernacular architecture. He captured the everyday existence, the

Art and politics have always been intersected with one another as art so often comes to express political ideas and to respond to political events. I have read today that the artist who created Israel’s most celebrated sculpture, a stone relief inside the Knesset (the parliament building) entitled ‘Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem,’ no