Daniella On Design

If there is something the people of Stockholm are prouder of than their magnificent City Hall, it is its National Romantic Style in architecture. It was rising from an upswell of national consciousness, spread across the Nordic countries in the early 20th century, and coming to express their unique northern identity. Stockholm City Hall is one […]

There is no other institution more closely associated with the culture and legacy of Danish Modern and Nordic design than Designmuseum Danmark, the famed museum for design and craft in Copenhagen. Now that it has reopened after two years it was closed for major renovations, it is where I have opened my visit to Denmark’s

As an admirer of Expressionist architecture, I have always wanted to see Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen, the church built entirely of brick, adhering to craft tradition. Today I visited this monument, one of the rare examples of this brief movement which introduced the notion that architecture is a form of art and spirituality while promoting

American writer Robin Hobb famously said, ‘Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.’ In my endless architecture pilgrimages, I visit homes of famous architects and homes they created for others—homes that came to change the

Another architectural icon was opened as a hotel this week. The nine-story Brutalist building in New Haven, Connecticut was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1967 for the Armstrong Rubber Company. Named Hotel Marcel, this building marked another height in the career of the Hungarian-born modernist who had completed the Whitney Museum of American Art in

Thank you, George Smart and USModernist for a beautiful and inspiring radio talk, for allowing me to express what I do, for capturing the essence of my mission as a design educator and Connoisseur, for illuminating my passion, for the extensive research, and for selecting me as a guest in your super successful program on

“Someone once asked Goethe what color he liked best. ‘I like rainbow,’ he said. That’s what I love about architecture: If its good, I is about every color in the spectrum of life; if its bad, the colors fade away entirely. From the ruins of Byzantium to the streets of New York, from the peaked

Gio Ponti, ‘Diamond’ flatware service for 24, 1958; Phillips: estimate $18,000 – 24,000; sold $88,200.

With its bubble shape and metallic reflection, the Nova House—an example of mobile, prefabricated microarchitecture—is the ultimate in space-age design of the 1970s; a true icon. It was created in an era which witnessed the space race between the US and the Soviet Union, marked by the race for the moon and the conquest of