Daniella On Design

We live in Manhattan, and when we moved to West 57th Street ten years ago, it was a quite district, filled with business people rushing in the morning to the offices, but by the early evening, it became quite and secluded. With the exception of concerts in Carnegie Hall where you could see elegant people […]

This it to congratulate my favorite auction house Rago/Wright who for an enormous expansion to the West Coast as it is has just announce merging with Los-Angeles- based auction house LA Modern Auctions. This merge brings together the three strongest, independently owned design brands in the auction industry into one leading force. All three houses

The Carnegie Museum of Art has opened a new show that comes to celebrate and define current architecture through the work of 10 young practices from around the world. The exhibition is called The Fabricated Landscape, and it explores some innovative minds working in contemporary architecture today, demonstrating diversity of buildings. What defines the projects

d This morning, I visited a summer collaborative exhibition between NY-based Heller Gallery and North Adams, MA- based Ferrin Contemporary. Entitled ‘Melting Point,’ this group show includes contemporary glass and ceramics by those whose use of the melting point is central to their oeuvre. The exhibition is shown in both locations simultaneously, featuring nearly 100

“The Old is New,” is not a paradox when it comes to Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (b.1948). Since discovering his Seascape series at a New York gallery years ago, photographs in B&W capturing the sea and horizons in a variety of locales across the globe, I became intrigued. Using an old fashioned camera to create long exposures,

A new gift book by Max Donnelly, Curator of Nineteenth-Century Furniture at the Victoria & Albert Museum, sheds light on the fascinating life and work of British designer Christopher Dresser. Why now? It is not clear, since the major retrospective of Dresser opened at the Museum in 2004, but it is nevertheless a compelling summary of

The new article in Forum Magazine on the upcoming program Interior Design: The Legends with the Center for Archtiecture/AIA.

Join the Center for Architecture/AIA and myself for a presentation on Zoom of three amazing programs for the fall. July 22nd, 11:00 am EST. https://zoom.us/j/96518082482?pwd=ZWtLdTE4eFd1anpzdDNtNWc2dnlnZz09

Who are the world’s most influential interior designers, those who have achieved unparalleled success, who radiate exquisite taste, and have come to define the quintessential interior of the 21st century? What can we learn from them? In my new virtual program ‘Interior Design: The Legends,’ you will meet them. In this unique series, I will

Any travel to the world’s capital of design must include a visit to Galleria Rossella Colombari, Italy’s leading specialist on Italian 20th-century design, where there is always something fresh and special to see, visits filled with surprises and great historical discoveries. The gallery was founded by Rossella Colombari, third generation of a family of antiques