Daniella On Design

 fORThe position of French decorator Jean Royère (1902-81) as the embodiment of the blue chip designer has long been cemented in the art market. Since the late 1990’s, Royère was rediscovered and his organic, somewhat whimsical furniture and lighting have been sought after by art collectors, leading interior designers, and tastemakers across the globe, marked […]

She was born in Budapest, on the banks of the Danube River in 1935. As a result of a series of anti-Jewish measures which Hungary had enacted, her father was taken from his home in the middle of the night, placed in a working camp, and from there was sent to the freezing borders of

Last week, Italian designer Nanda Vigo (1936-2020) passed away in Milan. In the landscape of Italian design of the 70s, Vigo’s work was always progressive, futuristic, multidisciplinary, and conceptual. While she is often associated with the Italian Radical Design Movement, I think that her lamps, interiors, furniture, and installations, are more typical to space-age design,

A couple of years ago, I assigned my students a paper that requested to identify the fashion designer, the architect, the interior designer, and the artist beyond works of design. Where can we see the artist in Noguchi’s coffee table, or the fashion designer in Rick Owen’s furniture? This project came to guide students to

Houses in plastic? In the 70s, plastic was the primary material used by visionary designers to express the futurism of the Space Age. Think about Pierre Cardin’s plastic dresses; the Futuro House by Matti Suuronen; or the Monsanto House of the Future, built in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, in demonstrating the potential of modern plastics to transform

Few pieces of jewelry have come to capture the imagination of generations of design lovers and stylish women as the ‘Giraffe’ necklace and bracelet, created by Art Deco lacquer master Jean Dunand (1877-1942) in 1927. Examples of the masterpiece in black-red-gold can be seen today in such museum collections as the Met, and the Musée

Collective Design, the New-York-based design fair is partnering with Frieze New York in presenting an exhibition, entitled Color and Production: From the Atom to the Void, curated by London based Libby Sellers. Now, that the Frieze got cancelled, the show will launch tomorrow as a part of the digital platform Frieze Viewing Room, which will

Last evening I concluded the first part of the webinar The Story of Modern Design with the Center for Architecture/AIA. That 5-session section was devoted to mid-century design, concluding with Brazil. If there is one slogan that captures the local design spirit at this time, it is ‘Modern Vernacular.’ According to the dictionary, it is

Taste has the power to transform everyday life experiences, and it is therefore a desired commodity; defining one’s taste has become a complex mission, with the pluralism and endless possibilities. This morning, I invited Hugues Magen, the dynamic founder of New-York-based Magen H Gallery to speak in the program Collecting Design, which has moved to

In the world of American Studio Furniture, J.B. Blunk (1926–2002) has remained a mystery. This California-based sculptor who created sensual and fantastic masterpieces in stone, wood, and clay, including jewelry, furniture, along with sculptures, has been ignored by those writing the this unique moment in the history of in American art. Blunk’s work looks like somewhere in