Daniella On Design

“I am interested in using natural materials such as stone and wood, seeking a realism that excludes artificiality and embraces natural beauty. Nature is tremendously tenacious and powerful, and humans cannot hope to conquer it. While seemingly opposite materials, wood and stone are the conceptual foundation of my work, for they each accomplish different things […]

For duo interior designers Rodman Primack and Rudy Weissenberg, founders of the international practice AGO Interiors, design has been the core of their relationship unit—partners in business and life—for twenty-seven years. Throughout their journey into the world of design, defining their own shared taste has been a holistic and interconnected process in many ways. They

With his innovative ideas, revolutionary thinking, and groundbreaking practice, Wharton Esherick (1887-1970) was instrumental to the evolution of American design. In fact, Esherick pioneered the concept of design-art during the 30s with his radical artisanal furniture, long before this term was coined to describe artistic process in creating functional objects. Yet, while widely recognized by

I love exhibitions that explore connections between visionary artists who never met, but whose art and oeuvre have multiple common chords. The recent show in this manner was opened last week at the Columbus Museum of Art, entitled Wild Earth: JB Blunk and Toshiko Takaezu, comes to explore the parallels between these two American artists

With an intriguing title, Golden Glass is a telling of the story of an ancient artistry technique, loved by the Romans, which has been revived and brought to new horizons by one New York artist, Miriam Ellner. I was first introduced to verre églomisé (the French term for the artistic process of painting on the

“The built environment is often being pulled in opposite directions. While density appears to be a more sustainable solution for people to live together, the scarcity of space usually implies a poor quality of life. Liu Jiakun rethinks the fundamentals of density through cohabitation, crafting an intelligent solution that balances the opposite forces at play.

There’s no mistaking his interiors. Robert Stilin’s domestic spaces are so distinctive that they are instantly recognizable. Furthermore, they do not look as if they belong in any other epoch but the present. The contemporary interior has primarily been characterized by a curated blend of historical and contemporary objects defined by layered narratives; however, Stilin’s

This special house reminds me of my German immigrant grandparents’ house on Mount Carmel in Haifa, which they built in the early 1950s inspired by German Modernist houses they had seen when living in Munich before immigrated to Palestine. This masterpiece that the modernist architect couple Flora Steiger-Crawford and Rudolf Steiger (parents of the architects

“It is difficult if nigh impossible to date David’s interiors – they exist out of time and space.” This is how fashion designer Thom Browne and Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art describe David Kleinberg’s spaces. Their Manhattan historic townhouse interiors he created opens the new