Daniella On Design

We first met in 1999; I was a new PhD student at the Bard Graduate Center specializing in the studies of design history and he was the founding Dean, having co-founded with Susan Soros in 1991. He was a renowned curator, writer, and leading expert of an international acclaim. I clearly remember walking into his

One of the world’s foremost experts on design, speaking to me off the record, recently mused that contemporary collectible design can be divided into two main categories: “museum objects” and “decorator objects.” The first category encompasses innovative design responses to political, social, technological issues swirling in the zeitgeist. The second is driven by aesthetics and

Ever since Amy Siegel created her memorable video Provenance—which tells the curious story of a set of humble, yet exquisitely designed furniture made during the postwar years for the offices in the civic buildings of the new Indian capital of Chandigarh—this body of furniture has become a household product. Chandigarh was a city like no

Whenever you walk into Magen H Gallery in Greenwich Village–whether you’re a serious design collector or a more casual design enthusiast—you can be sure that you will encounter something fresh, something curious—something that you have never seen before. Because the gallery’s founder, Paris-born Hugues Magen, has dedicated his nearly 25-year-long career to resurfacing 20th-century French

Italy produced some of the world’s most innovative and exciting Brutalist architecture, which is featured in a new book entiteld Brutalism in Italy: Concrete Architecture from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea, with magnificent photographs by Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego (published by FUEL). Italian Brutalism — ranging from private homes to churches, cemeteries, and

‘It is like a love that asks for nothing in return, that fills my soul, and moves my body.’ Ken Mihara. In my recent journey to Japan, I explored the dynamic world of kogei, and I learned a great deal from visiting artists’ studios. I have learned to identify even more than before the inventiveness,

When Lebreton was honored with the the Best Presentation Award at Design Miami/ Paris last week, the Monaco-based gallery’s founders, Karim Mehanna and Alain Lebreton, partners in life and work, saw the moment as a gratifying culmination of their two-decades-long dedication to resurfacing, researching, and promoting postwar French pottery. The award also served as a reminder that

The term ‘Design Art’ has undergone several incarnations since it was coined in the ‘80s with the emergence of radical movements and the rediscovery of handcraftsmanship in design. Today, it is defined as the intersection of fine art and functional objects, and only when design objects contain elements of fine arts can they be classified