Daniella On Design

In postwar Turin, he was a stylish, renaissance man, and a performer. In everything he did – designing furniture, interiors, racing cars, photographing women in a series of erotic polaroids, mastering the art of skiing, his selection of fashion and objects that he found – he was an avant-garde performer and a storyteller. While he […]

Think about the nostalgic times before video games, when families gathered around board games and spent their evenings and holidays together, playing Monopoly, Scrabble, or Parcheesi.  I remember those days when we played monopoly, sitting in a circle on a large Oriental rug at my late grandmother’s house, and I believe that the monopoly board

The single most important guiding principle in my travels, one I will never compromise on, is the quest for authenticity. By this I mean that the best way to experience a destination is through its traditions, culture, contemporary life, and local architecture. I certainly did not invent this concept. Tourists’ desire for authenticity and staged

If Italian architect and designer Gianfranco Frattini (1926–2004) were living today with design becoming increasingly identified with Instagram images, he probably would have been more inclined to self-promotion. However, the legendary and prolific architect, who belonged to the generation of heroes who shaped Italian classic modern and turned Milan into the world’s design mecca in

Since the inception of Design Miami in 2005, modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic and influential territories in the international marketplace, dominating the curated interior of the 21st century. Initially shaped in response to the fine art market, collecting design has become a discipline in its own right, acting as

“For the last fifteen years,” wrote Argentinian designer Cristián Mohaded at the opening of the catalogue of his recent retrospective at the Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo in Buenos Aires, “I have attempted to create a specific way of conceiving and producing design that brings to the surface the potential that lies buried in Argentina’s