Daniella On Design

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,

This week, I have been surrounded by Latin American design. Last evening I have attended a fascinating and well-delivered lecture on Latin American design by Christian Larsen, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts & Design at the Met who appeared at my alma mater, the Bard Graduate Center, which I found enlightening and informative. Larsen, whose

I had the honor to host four extraordinary women for a conversation at the New York School of Interior Design, which I called “Eileen Gray: Why Now?” Now this conversation is available to watch online (below). Jennifer Goff, Curator of Furniture, Silver, and the Eileen Gray Collection at the National Museum of Ireland; Cloé Pitiot,

Peder Moos (1906-91), the Danish furniture designer/cabinetmaker who crafted furniture by hand in the mid-century years, is a new star, born in the landscape of collectible Nordic furniture. When his dining table (above), crafted in oak and maple, commissioned in 1952 by the lumber dealer M. Aubertin for their house, which itself was designed by Finn