Daniella On Design

Through her timelessly refined visual vocabulary, New York-based interior designer Alyssa Kapito demonstrates that excellent taste blossoms when it’s rooted in a solid foundation of art historical knowledge. Since launching her firm in 2012, she has earned an international reputation for classical yet pared back, bespoke interiors that are effortlessly layered in neutral hues and […]

If the images of Jay Sae Jung Oh’s Salvage Furniture look familiar to you, it is likely because in recent years her pieces have entered and been widely exhibited in museum collections, including the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper Hewitt. Her

The exhibition Max Lamb: Inventory, which opened at Salon 94 this last week, is a career survey and showcase of the eponymous British designer’s own inventory, as the title suggests. This ambitious and stunning presentation is a pleasure to look at and fascinating to learn about. Having been in the making for nearly four years,

For Nicolas Schuybroek, creating bespoke interiors of uncompromising quality has been a lifelong mission. Since founding his boutique office in Brussels in 2011, he and his small team have been dedicated to creating homes, hotels, galleries, retails spaces, and more that are defined by extraordinary light, volume, and symmetry, often incorporating sophisticated raw materials and

What does it mean to be a design museum today? Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection highlights how Cooper Hewitt acquires new work to shape the collection to better reflect current issues and design’s evolving role in daily interactions. The exhibition features more than 150 works, including objects that represent the museum’s collecting legacy, as well as

There is a place, where chairs are grown in an orchard. And it is not in a science fiction movie. According to Gavin Munro’s utopian vision, in the next century the gardens of our cities and communities will be filled with trees grown in the forms of chairs, tables, and benches, enabling the members of

To us Americans, there is a certain allure to the English Country Houses that is unmatched. It has been synonymous with the best lifestyle of the rural countryside, and the embodiment of spectacular architecture, interiors, gardens, and furnishings. The English Country House represents the glory of the past, with each of these legendary homes containing

Functional objects made in the service of political ideology and a sustainable planet are the most contemporary expressions of design culture. In fact, in 2024, any design which compromises environmental regeneration on either a national or global level is considered dated. In my eternal journey into the world of contemporary design, I like to learn