Daniella On Design

In the postwar years, Milanese architect-designer Gio Ponti had achieved the title and position of the Dean of Italian Design. He designed everything from tableware to furniture, from flatware, to skyscrapers, to department stores, to hotels, and founded the magazine Domus, which came to shape and present postwar Italian design and facilitated its success abroad. […]

Let’s celebrate Charles Eames birthday. The most charismatic figure of the American design world during the age of Mad Men was born on June 17, 1907. Forging a lifelong partnership with his wife Ray – he was an architect by training and she was a painter and sculptor — the two had become the heroic

The Museum at Bard Graduate Center, my alma mater celebrates the spectacular lives and careers of husband-and-wife architects Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio-Aalto (married 1924), who crafted one of the most enduring and productive partnerships in the history of modern design, with the famed design brand Artek. Entitled ‘Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern

​Thank you, James Zemaitis for delivering the most invaluable and fascinating talk on collecting Danish chairs this morning. A part of the course I teach on collecting design at the New York School of Interior Design, in this session, devoted to Scandinavian furniture, we focused on the postwar years, when Scandinavian furniture burst on to

I am pleased to announce that we have started shooting the film on collecting furniture by Paul Evans today. A part of an ongoing series on collecting design, which is produced in conjunction with a program I teach at the New York School of Interior Design “Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights,” this film is supported

​By next Tuesday, the Four Seasons Restaurant, once hailed as the world’s most beautiful restaurant will be just a memory. Yesterday, together with a few dozens of design editors, writers, and professionals from New York I have attended the moving and sad preview of the sale of all of its contents. From the stunning bar

Revisiting Eastern German old architecture and transforming existing buildings while utilizing cost-effective methods, is where architect Arno Brandlhuber has found his most fulfilling creativity. His work has recently been discovered and his Antivilla was filmed by the NYT. In this concrete structure, a former lingerie factory building in Potsdam, originally designed without central heating, he

While the world was celebrating Frank Lloyd Wright’s 149th birthday yesterday, MoMA announced a major retrospective of the architect to open next June on the 150th anniversary to his birth. MoMA has had a close connection to the architect’s legacy and his archives. While considered today the most celebrated, the heroic architect of the 20th

Design Miami/ is so much more than a marketplace that offers some of the greatest objects available today. It is a celebration of many aspects of design, a festival for all senses. This time, Design Miami/ participates in a charity gala event that benefits UNAIDS, the spectacular United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS. The

Maxéville Design Office, which French designer Jean Prouvé (1901-84)  produced in 1948, ended up as a part of his Ateliers Jean Prouvé in Maxéville, until removed and restored last year. One of his demountable prefabricated buildings, this one was created for the Noisy-le-Sec experimental site and was intended for use by the government as a