Daniella On Design

The controversy of the week: Federal design guidelines for government buildings made the front-page news. A draft of a new Executive Order, which is meant to be handed to President Trump in the next month or so demands that “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again.” This Order, which comes to impose style, referring to many civic and federal buildings […]

Join me on February 26th for an amazing night of design and inspiration, when LongHouse Reserve will honor Joseph Walsh in its winter benefit event. The evening will begin at 6 with a cocktail reception at the Hearst Tower, by Sir Norman Foster, following by a talk, and concluding with dinner at the Fifth Avenue

​Legendary homes which superstars architects have created for their superstar clients is the theme of a new exhibition ‘Houses for Superstars Hypermediated architecture’ at the Art Centre of Villa Noailles. As the Villa itself represents one of the most iconic commissions of this type, designed by superstar modernist Robert Mallet-Stevens for legendary art patrons Charles

The architecture community and architecture lovers all over the world were shocked and saddened this week, when the Graduate School of Architecture at Taliesin has announced its upcoming closure this June.   The unique school, founded in 1932 by Frank Lloyd Wright, started as an apprenticeship program which he initiated during the Depression when his career

Art/Studio Jewelry has come to the forefront of collecting in the past three decades, generating exhibitions, publications, scholarship, and presented in galleries, art fairs, and museums. Art Jewelry has not emerged as a part of the fashion world, neither does it belong to the territory of fine jewelry, but this unique field had been developed

The design community was saddened this week with the death of one of its pillars. Adolfo Natalini (1941-2020), co-founder of the Italian radical architecture collective Superstudio passed at 78 in Florence. Superstudio was one of several such collectives founded in Italy during the 60s and 70s, seeking to propose critical and alternative ways to make a

In the program ‘Collectible Contemporary Design,’ which I currently teach in Tel Aviv, I seek to map and to define that territory. As the term ‘collectible design’ been largely misused, often in the most inaccurate and misleading ways, this program comes to look deep into what has gradually emerged as the most ambitious, progressive, glorified,

 Kenya Hara is a brilliant and innovator Japanese graphic designer, curator, and writer, largely considered among the most visible and important voices in Japanese design today. For nearly two decades, he has served as the art director of Muji, the company known for its pared-back designs and simple, logo-less branding across house-ware, furniture, and fashion.

No other American house of the mid-century years had come to capture the fantasy of living in transparent glass as the three iconic houses which will be celebrated here this evening: The Farnsworth House; the Glass House; and the Walker Guest House.  Constructed within two years of each other, between 1949 and 1951, and designed by

​Modernism Week, an annual celebration of the legacy of American Modernism in Palm Springs, is coming up next month (February 13-23). This time, the program will include a presentation by Virginia Bayer on the rediscovered work of her grandmother, Marguerita Mergentime. A Manhattan-based textile designer, who was active in the interwar years, Mergentime pioneered modernism,