Daniella On Design

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