Daniella On Design

 “Maarten Baas is the kind of man that Hollywood used to refer to as the silent type. Observant and modest but confident. Relaxed, polite, and very present. Maybe not very interested at first. He’s definitely not an extrovert, but Maarten is plenty animated inside. I have always believed he participates in several internal dialogues at once, mostly about his […]

Why are British studio ceramics significant? What about them has captured the imagination of art lovers and collectors across the globe? It is certainly different than the clay art made in Japan, Korea, America, Africa, South America, or France, and its story is fascinating; one of a century-old movement that has achieved great heights. The

When the self-taught Italian sculptor Mauro Mori was young, Giulio Cappellini (founder and art director of the eponymous Italian furniture company) told him that he should follow his instincts and did not have to experiment with methods and concepts that were not in his heart. It was then that he realized that he did not have

“We talk a lot—after all we are colleagues—but never listen to each other. I admire in Aldo an undisturbed tenacity; he develops without straying into side roads. In doing so, he follows his own intuition tightly, and the delusion of the day has no influence on his working method. I find his Schenkers to be highly

The annual Asia Week New York is the best occasion to celebrate Asian art in the Big Apple. It is the time when top-tier Asian art specialists, major auction houses, museums, and Asian cultural institutions congregate in New York to present and view the best of the best in Asian art. On this occasion, Joan

What does Milan mean to you? To me, it is the ultimate urban oasis—the capital of fashion, design, and style. It is also the place with some of my favorite dishes in Italian gastronomy, and where some of my favorite friends and colleagues live and work. Milan is about what hides behind the façades: the

Spending an early spring Saturday morning at KinoSaito, the new art center at the foot of Bear Mountain in the Hudson Valley, New York, was an unexpected joy. While the region has recently become a haven for art foundations and private museums, KinoSaito on the other hand as a nonprofit interdisciplinary center, is different. It

Don’t think about furniture in the traditional context when you look at Douglas Fanning’s furnishings. Think of pieces of architecture, envision open landscapes, shifting lands and supercontinents. This is what the Brooklyn-based designer/maker has in mind when designing his landscape tables and modernist lightings. There is a strong architectural identity to all of his pieces because they

“DRIFT’s first public installation of Shylight (2015) added an unexpected element of surprise to a formerly hidden part in the Rijksmuseum. Commissioned as part of the institution’s years-long overhaul, DRIFT’s design offers exactly what every museum visitor should experience: wonder and exploration.” —Wim Pijbes, Emeritus General Director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam It’s no surprise