Daniella On Design

Next week, I will moderate another Conversation on Design @DeLorenzo Gallery with Michael Chow, one of the most intriguing personalities in the American creative world. Chow, who is known globally as the visionary mind behind the sophisticated, stylish, and elegant chain of restaurants Mr. Chow, had become the most visible ambassador of Chinese culture in […]

Let’s celebrate the birthday of remarkable architect Antonín Raymond, who was born in Bohemia on May 10th, 1888 and was professionally active in the US and Japan. He worked with some of two of the most distinctive talents of the time, first with Cass Gilbert and then with Frank Lloyd Wright. From Wright, he has

The TWA Flight Center, as it was called when first opened to the public in 1962 was brilliantly designed by Eero Saarinen ​and has been considered an architectural masterpiece of the mid-century years. It came to symbolize the spirit of hope, progress, and prosperity of the Jet Age. Is has not been operated since 2001, when

This shall be crowned as the most bizarre, unbelievable story of the week. The image of the sculpted ceiling that Isamu Noguchi created for the lobby of the American Stove Company-Magic Chef building in St. Louis has been reproduced over and over in design books and has been known as a ‘lost’ artistic treasure for

As a design historian, I have found the work of Dutch designer Sebastian Brajkovic stimulating and intriguing, as it is engaged in a steady conversation with the heritage of design, rethinking, revisiting, reimagining. Whether it is the neoclassical allure of 18th-century French decorative arts, the Victorian iconic tête-à-tête, or the shells of Baroque, there is

I couldn’t think of a better way to start the First Monday in May than going to the glamorous preview Costume Institute’s spring 2016 exhibition, ‘Manus x Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology,’ and to join Anna Wintour, curator Andrew Bolton, and Jonathan Ive, representing Apple, which sponsors this remarkable show in the opening

When Jacksons Berlin has announced that its Summer Exhibition, opened on Thursday is devoted to Danish furniture designer Poul Kjærholm (1929-1980), I felt that it comes in time, as Poul Kjærholm’s steel furniture shall be reevaluated as a collectible entity. It has burst into the marketplace in the early 2000’s and immediately came to capture

When my friend Adriana Friedman, Director of DeLorenzo Gallery (below) has first presented me with the furniture pieces by interior designer Sam Amoia, which she began representing, I found them interesting, yet in progress. The furniture, which I have first seen, two years ago was crafted of crashed minerals combined with refined concrete in various

I couldn’t have imagined a better way to remember Vladimir Kagan than the intimate, moving gathering of friends in Michael Hirtenstein’s triplex in Tribeca this week. Because the interior of this stunning home was one of the most ambitious projects that Kagan has undertaken with Amy Lau, the interior decorator he loved as a daughter.

George R. Kravis II has been one of the world’s pioneer collectors of industrial design, and his contribution to education and preservation has been noted with publications and gifts. To celebrate his recent gift of historical and contemporary design objects to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the National Museum has opened a show ‘Energizing