Daniella On Design

There is a great deal in common between modernist architecture and the work of Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), with the most obvious being the similarity of their philosophies regarding humanity. Both placed the human experience as their main point of reference and key subject. When the two coincided, new layers of aesthetics and conceptual […]

“It’s been 10 years since my then colleague Mark Wilson and I curated Jaime’s first solo exhibition at the Groninger Museum, celebrating his first ten years as an independent designer. What struck us was his meticulously crafted yet unapologetically fantastic design. Bypassing modernism, connecting Memphis with his own contemporary Mediterranean baroque, combined with the reappraisal

“Mattia is the consummate gentleman. A fun thing happened when I commissioned some furniture for my bedroom. Wendell Castle was making two chairs in gold leaf, and Mattia was going to make a cylindrical side table and cabinet of drawers. When there was some confusion about how the two designers would ensure that their pieces

When you look at her pristine, colorless, light-filled Manhattan interiors, you won’t be able to guess what the clay vessels of this architect-turned-ceramicist look like; they are colorful, sensual, romantic, and dreamy. As ceramics begin to take a central role in contemporary art, the path has opened up for artists working in clay to explore

Dennis Freedman knows design and taste, and he knows them well. For nearly two decades, as the founding creative director of W magazine, he traveled the world for their famed photoshoots. Later, as the creative director of Barneys New York, he devised the store’s iconic windows. Freedman has always been surrounded by fashion, music, style, and design—as matters

“Most people who become unsurpassed in several categories by the age of thirty slow down a bit. Not Joseph Walsh. At a remarkably early stage in his career, he was already a leader in the Irish design and craft scene. Since then, he has branched out in many other directions—both literally and figuratively—as a sculptor,

When Venezuelan-born, NY-based ceramicist Reinaldo Sanguino went to study at the Cristobal Rojas School of Visual Arts in his hometown Caracas in the early 90s, ceramic art was not what it is today. Before the turn of the millennium, clay art was heavily synonymous with the crafts and studio ceramics associated with the studio movements

One of the most anticipated design exhibitions of this season: Marianne Brand: Metall, at Ulrich Fiedler in Berlin. Marianne Brandt (1893–1983), the German artist is mostly known for the work she had done in metal during her time as a student and later as the head of the Metal Workshop at the Bauhaus. She was able to

Private jet and cabinets in denim? Maarten Baas is back in Milan and as always, it is cool, cutting edged, and sustainable. Collaborating with denim brand G-Star RAW, ‘More or Less’ exhibition spotlights the endless possibilities of denim and the tension between the desire for more but the need for less. The result is a

When the Italian New-York-based architect Antonio Pio Saracino proposed a contemporary response to Michelangelo’s masterpiece David, he insisted on using the same pure white Carrara marble that the Italian artist used in the early 1500s. When placed in an exhibition in the Academia Gallery in Florence next to David, it was clear that his digital-age interpretation resembled the