Daniella On Design

Collectible Italian lighting is the topic of tomorrow’s class in the program Collecting Design at the New York School of Interior Design in collaboration with Cultured Magazine. Lighting took on a special significance in Italy during the postwar years when design had reached its golden age. The expressive, chic, sculptural modern lightings created by a […]

 When Jørn Utzon won the legendary competition for designing the Sydney Opera in 1958, he approached Le Corbusier to create a tapestry for the foyer of the building. He couldn’t have imagined that it would take decades before this abstract work of art would be installed in its home. But the 6.5-square-metre wool tapestry, woven

Loved every minute in the conversation with 92 year old Gloria Vanderbilt and her son Anderson Cooper last evening at the 92nd Street Y. The event came to highlight the recent documentary ‘Nothing Left Unsaid,’ which aired on HBO this week and their memoir ‘The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life,

Want to thank Emma McClendon, curator of the fantastic show ‘Denim: Fashion’s Frontier’ at the Museum at FIT, for taking me through it today and for revealing its ideas and process in her articulated words. It was a treat. Seeking to examine the history of denim from the 19th century to the present, the exhibition

British designer Gavin Munro belongs to a generation of young thinkers exploring for ways to allow and assist nature to create objects. Tokujin Yoshioka, the Japanese designer has created chairs growing in salting water and formed into salt crystal; Studio Libertiny has presented wax vases made entirely by bees; Neri Oxman has gathered silkworms and

If you happened to notice the iconic Yves Saint Laurent dress from his Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition’ series which fetched last week $27,500 (against its pre-sale estimate of $4,000 to $6,000) at the Chicago-based auction house Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ April Couture Auction, you probably wondered about the long sleeves (below). With the abstract, geometric language of

​With the courageous investigations and the finding of the last suspect in the terrorist attack last month, Brussels is getting ready for the upcoming Art Brussels, the contemporary art fair. In its reduced form, Galerie Downtown will be presenting an exhibition ‘Takis-Prouvé’ which comes to juxtapose contemporary art and mid-century architecture by two key figures

He has been a pillar of the NYC design world for so long, that it is hard to believe that Vladi Kagan won’t be with us anymore. The German-born Manhattan-based, Columbia-graduate Kagan has died yesterday at the age of 89. To Kagan, making and designing furniture was a lifetime passion, a part of his DNA,

​Let’s celebrate Jean Prouvé’s 115th birthday today. While known today as one of the most important designers/architects/engineers of the 20th century, he was foremost a metalworker, seeking to creating prefabricated buildings and pieces of furniture as to change the world, and help the French people living in a modern way. He grew up in Nancy,

When Misha Kahn, the 27-year-old New-York-based designer whose solo show I have visited this morning described it as a retrospective, I put a big smile on my face. I fact, from the moment you enter the wild space of fantasy, which Kahn created for his first gallery show at Friedman Benda you can’t help yourself,