Daniella On Design

Congratulations, the brilliant and visionary designer Bruce Mau, recipient of the 2016 National Design Award for ‘Design Mind.’ It has been a great year for Mau who was also recognized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a recipient of its Collab Award which was marked by a wonderful exhibition ‘Work on What You Love: […]

It is hard to believe that the Whitney Museum of American Art had started its way in a small carriage house, but when Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Museum in 1931, she set it up in her own studio on West Eighth Street in Greenwich Village. When the Museum was moved to its Brutalist Marcel-Breuer-designed

The Parisian auction house Artcurial has introduced ambitious and curated sales of Scandinavian Design a couple of years ago, and its upcoming one (May 31st) is divided into three sections, each represents one of the three Nordic countries presented in the sale: Finland, Denmark, and Sweden. In the Swedish section, the sculpted chair by Gösta

If the name SC Johnson is not familiar to you, go to your pantry and you would definitely find something produced by the company: Windex, Glade, Pledge, Fantastik, just to mention a few of its cleaning products that are to be found in every American home. The company, also known as Johnson’s Wax, as it

The Italian design collective Superstudio had never really finished a building, and all of its designs have remained unrealized utopias of alternative architecture and planet/urban planning. Yet, like German Expressionism, which rarely conceived real buildings, it has maintained a key place in the pantheon of 20th-century design. Now, Maxxi Museum in Rome has opened “Superstudio:

Michael Chow is the ultimate collector, a man of impeccable taste, immense knowledge in art and its market, of deep passion for beauty that has lead him to a constant quest for the perfection. In everything he does. In the way he acts, in the way he entertains, in the way he dresses, in the

One of the most ambitious programs in New York design world is the annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House, which opened last week. This time, the show takes place over five floors of a new limestone-clad townhouse on East 61st Street. Walking into the Show House is like walking into a world of fantasy. The

The terms ‘organic architecture,’ ‘prairie architecture,’ and the ‘American Home’ have been closely associated with Frank Lloyd Wright, the hero or 20th century architecture. Yet, what I have learnt this weekend, following the Frank Lloyd Wright Heritage Trail, recently established by the State of Wisconsin, is that while you can theoretically comprehend these terms, you

The fact that Los Angeles has emerged as one of the world’s most significant and ambitious centers of design, is exemplified in Anthony Iannacci’s new book ‘Hollywood Interiors: Style and Design in Los Angeles’ (published by Monacelli Press). Modern design in the City of Angels had been rooted in the early years of the 20th

One of the most compelling aspects of strolling through Collective Design Fair, which took place last week in New York, is the discovery of new design and those creating it. The Fair, established four years ago, has come to present the up-to-date collectible design, with a great focus on contemporary work. This time, I was