Daniella On Design

As Design Miami/, the global forum for design opens its Basel edition next week, I would like to devote my blog to a couple of important events and exhibitions in the world of design, all occur alongside Art Basel. Today, I want to look at the material brought by Carpenters Workshop Gallery and to tell […]

​Thank you, David Stark for a great tour of your studio and workshop in Brooklyn and for a fascinating presentation of your dazzling work. I call him a wizard, because David can create the most spectacular, breathtaking, imaginative spaces out of nothing. Well, not exactly nothing, but he utilizes things and materials that many of

I have first met John Birch, co-founder of New York design destination Wyeth years ago when posting an ad in the local newspaper for a small chair that I wanted to sell. John came to my home, personally picked up the chair, and told me about his passion for design. It is when I discovered

Congratulating Costanzo and the family of Canfora for celebrating 70th anniversary of my favorite sandals, which have allowed me to dress stylish and comfortable in the past twenty-something summers. Canfora was born in 1946 in Capri, just as WWII came to its end, and Europe’s royals, artists, intellectuals, and actors had rediscovered the Italian island

​Every design lover has their own ‘Bauhausie.’  Mine has always been Hungarian visionary László Moholy-Nagy, the Bauhaus teacher who created interdisciplinary work before the term was invented, and who pioneered the marriage of art and science.  Thus I could not have been happier to learn that the Guggenheim opens a retrospective “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present,” this

Above: the quintessential modernist staircase by Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye (1930). Staircase of the Martin May House in Chicago (1941), by Samuel Marx A curvaceous staircase, designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, Salon 94, New York. Staircase by I.M. Pei at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Luxembourg Staircase by Isay Weinfeld Spiral Staircase by Wharton

So hard to say good-bye to the Four Seasons Restaurant, but I want to congratulate Julian Niccolini, legendary restauranteur, and owner of the iconic restaurant for finalizing on 280 Park Avenue, as its upcoming new home, where the restaurant will be moving from its original Seagram Building (above). Known as the world’s most beautiful restaurant,

The design auction season in New York is approaching, and the three major houses offer a wide array of material, which I will be covering in the next two weeks. Sotheby’s is offering a rare collection of furniture, designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Casa Encantada. These pieces allow a glimpse into one of the most

I could not have thought of a better way to celebrate George Nakashima’s 111th birthday than driving to the Nakashima studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania, so this is exactly what I have done today. Visiting Mira, Soomi, John, and everyone at the Studio is always a great pleasure and an aesthetic experience that I have

My new ‘discovery,’ the chic Twenty First Gallery, founded by Renaud Vuaillat, is situated in a charming Chelsea townhouse that seems at first as a private residence. In this elegant authentic interior, the gallery presents a solo exhibition of French designer Emmanuel Babled, whose work is being exhibited in the U.S. for the first time. Babled is interested