Daniella On Design

In Space Oddity, the single which icon rock-and-roll legend David Bowie released in July of 1969, he sang about Major Tom, a fictional astronaut who casually slips the bonds of the world to journey beyond the stars. It has since become seminal to the fear, mystery, imagination, and fascination with travel and discovery of the […]

 The sho Marcel Wanders was one of the founders of the conceptual Dutch design movement of the 1990s as the co-founder of the Droog Design (literary in Dutch: ‘dry’), established in 1993.  Together with such talents as Hella Jongerius, Tejo Remy, Richard Hutten, Jurgen Bey and Joris Laarman, Wanders helped people think differently about design, and

In the 60s, when men discovered the moon, women discovered the miniskirt, and designers formulated a language that evoked the space-age and the future. Two fashion designers revolutionized couture when pioneering the miniskirt, bringing the new and youthful dress to the catwalk and to the wardrobe of such tastemakers as the Duchess of Windsor and

​Poetic design is everywhere today and it has come to largely define collectible contemporary design. Remember the memorable scene in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster thriller Inception when the power to bend dream according to the architect’s dream? “Wave City Coffee Table” by London-based designer Stelios Mousarris was inspired by this scene. The table, made of wood

She was the ultimate collector, legendary cosmetic entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein, and she assembled the finest collection of African Art. When it came to collecting, she demonstrated a sophisticated taste for blurring boundaries between art, fashion, and design. Taste to her was a form of power and she was a postmodernist long before the birth of

Franco Albini (1905-77), the Italian rationalist architect was one of Italy’s most talented members of the avant-garde. His work was always elegant, fresh, minimalist, and very ‘Italian,’ both during the interwar and postwar years. While Albini is mostly known today for his iconic Albini Desk, which he designed in 1929 of combining steel, glass, and

One of my most favorite artists of all time, the Jewish-Hungarian aristocrat, turned an influential figure in the European avant-garde and one of the most legendary design educators of the 20th century, László Moholy-Nagy, will be at the subject of an upcoming comprehensive retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum this spring. Experimenting with new

The name Richard Salomon is unknown to many today, but this design entrepreneur pioneered design branding, playing a key role in promoting some of the most creative people in the 60s and 70s. Salomon, who was named president of the famed cosmetic company Charles of the Ritz in 1932 at the age of 24, was

The fact that William L. Pereira (1909-85), the Los-Angeles-based architect is not as famous as he should have been outside of America, and the fact that his work has been overlooked by historians, demonstrate that architecture history has its own faults. Pereira designed some of the most iconic and futuristic buildings of the cold war

“The Danish Girl,” the film which tells the story of Danish artists Gerda and Einar Wegener, one of the first to undergo sex reassignment surgery, known as the transgender Lili Elbe, is an emotionally exploration of sexual identity in the early part of the 20th century. But the film is also an aesthetic celebration for