Daniella On Design

With the rise of Black Lives Matter Movement, there is no better time to explore the current African American architectural experience. ‘What is African American space?’ is the line opens the new book In Search of African American Space (Edited by Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff and published by Lars Müller Publishers). With essays by academics whose work examines African […]

For twenty years, John Nakashima worked on a documentary on his uncle, legendary Japanese American woodworker/architect George Nakashima. In fact, everyone in the circle of Nakashima, collectors, dealers, curators, all knew about the film in making for years until it was completed in the spring. Now, this biographical documentary, which comes to trace the extraordinary

I was thrilled to start filming the new series ‘The Collector’ this week. This online education platform comes to host world’s experts who share their experience, expertise, and stories. The program seeks to inspire the viewers to live as collectors, to improve their ‘eye’ and proficiency, while shaping their knowledge on how to identify the

Al​Interiors are ephemeral and short-lived. They are modified frequently according to the change of style, and rarely survive. Therefore, any investigation of interior environments of the past tends to rely on photography, oral history, and other sources. A newly-installed historical interior at the Alvar Aalto Museum in Jyväskylä, Finland, is an example of authentic and

e first-ever Birkin bag, owned by Jane Birkin, Winston Churchill’s despatch box, and Carrie Bradshaw’s Fendi ‘Baguette,’ Margaret Thatcher’s handbag along with 300 handbags are included in the new exhibition Bags: Inside Out at the V&A. The comprehensive exhibition comes to explore the history of the prized accessory, both atelier and factory, and to examine the fascination

Once the demolition of Paul Rudolph’s Burroughs Wellcome Company Headquarters Building in Durham, North Carolina, was approved last week, it has made the headline in all architecture magazines, newsletters of the American preservation organizations, and in social media. Everyone calls for an urgent auction to save this icon. It is almost regular news, as every couple of years,

Osvaldo Borsani at Donzella, preview, published in Interior Design Magazine.  

He was no less successful than Mies van der Rohe; no less modernist than Le Corbusier; no less political than Walter Gropius; and no less innovative than Erich Mendelsohn. He was as reformed, prolific, and legendary as them all, yet, the name of Belgium designer Henry van de Velde (1863-1957), who gave up painting at

Aside from lovers of Japanese culture and architecture, few know Shofuso, a small Japanese House with a beautiful garden, situated in Philadelphia, and designed in what is regarded as a definitive Japanese style. Now, with a new exhibition, “Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration between Japan and Philadelphia,” this design gem will be reintroduced to a larger audience. This