Daniella On Design

A fascinating conference on architecture is coming up. Brno-born architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) is mostly remembered for his seminal essay ‘Ornament and Crime,’ which he published in 1908, and which had become the manifesto of the New Architecture in the German speaking world. Ornament, he claimed, was not only the expression of the primitive and […]

From the time she was 42 at the death of her husband Prince Albert in 1861, Queen Victoria was wearing mourning black every day. She turned the black dress into the fashionable wear after death of a family member in Britain. Prince Albert’s death sent Victoria into a deep depression, and she stayed in seclusion

Most designers working in Paris during the 1920s became passionate about the art of natural lacquer, which was a part of the fascination with Asian lacquered metalwork arriving in Europe. Eileen Gray famously created much of her early furniture in lacquer, crafted by Seizo Sugawara, a Japanese painter who had emigrated to France; Pierre Legrain

“Simon is an extraordinary dealer, impresario, talent spotter, and auctioneer—arguably the best of all time—who has put together some of the world’s greatest collections over the last 40 years. Our joint admiration of Ron Arad led him to put together the gorgeous exhibition at Newlands House, which is one of Ron’s greatest exhibitions ever. Simon’s

Great news to all design lovers. The V&A is launching Explore the Collections, a new digital platform, and one of the Museum’s most significant digital ventures today. It comes to enable us to search, explore and discover much of its collections. This new online experience forms a key part of the V&A’s goal to revolutionize access

Let’s remember a giant woman who died this weekend at 104. Ruth Dayan was the founder of Maskit, a decorative arts and fashion house, the first of its kind in Israel. She was also the first wife of legendary Israeli Foreign Minister and General Moshe Dayan, and is remembered as a true liberal Zionist and

Before Frank Gehry and before Zaha Hadid there was Palais Bulles, the world’s wildest mansion, an experimental monument, which stood at the forefront of contemporary architecture of the 1970s. The ‘Bubble Palace’ was built as a revolutionary laboratory of the avant-garde design principles of its time, facing the stunning bay of Cannes. A month after

If you visit Japan, you see design everywhere, because design stands at the core of Japanese culture and tradition; in Japan, design is a way of life. The ‘Japanese Look’ is recognizable all over the world, by the cars, the knives, the tableware, storage containers. There is something ‘Japanese’ about them all. While Japanese design

With only five townhouses he built in his hometown Brussels in the late years of the 19th century, Victor Horta (1861-1947) cemented his place in the history as the father of Art Nouveau architecture. Those masterpieces marked the early phase of his career, but also its peak. In fact, Horta devised the first of these

Thank you, Design Miami, for including me in the article: What’s to Come? Thoughts on the new year from our on-the-pulse design friends around the globe.