Daniella On Design

Harvest Dialogues, 2019First Episode: Architecture.  The Eames House, the home and studio of America’s favorite star designers of the mid-century could not have received a better gift in celebrating its 70th anniversary. A new conservation master program was recently completed and published, and it was initiated and crafted by both the Eames Foundation, and the Getty […]

 The news that came to capture the attention of anyone interested in the art market, was the sale of the personal collection of late artist duo Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, known as Les Lalanne. It was sold by Sotheby’s this week, fetching the highest total for any private art collection sold in France in the

The allure of Italian mid-century lighting was the focus of this morning’s class in the program Collecting Design at the Center for Architecture/AIA. For the mission of illuminating its charisma; exploring its evolution in the marketplace; and revealing the materials, craftsmanship, and technologies employed by those innovative pioneers responsible for the finest Italian lighting of

Ingo Maurer (1932-2019), the German industrial designerת also known as the poet or the magician of lighting design passed today at 87. With his famed colorful, amazing, provocative, theatrical designs, he is responsible for bringing attention to lights, while introducing narrative into lighting of the 21st century. It happened at the same time this morning,

The grandest event in the art world of NYC this season is the reopening of MoMA. After three years of renovations, and after it closed its doors for the summer, the Museum of Modern Art will reopen on October 21st. Forget everything you know about MoMA. In the stunning building by Diller Scofidio +Renfro, a

Reclaimed wood is a processed wood which is salvaged from its original application and utilized for another. It is typically reclaimed from buildings, mostly barns, water tower, and furniture. With the growing awareness for protecting our planet, and with the concern with the declining quality in new lumber, the practice of reclaimed wood has gained popularity

If you think about the Bauhaus’ concept of ‘Art and Technology,’ which its founder Walter Gropius introduced to the radical school  in 1923, just four years after it opened, changing its direction dramatically, then it is hard to see the connection to the British Arts and Crafts Movement and its father William Morris. However, if

There is one important question to which the first monograph of Paris-based designer Pierre Yovanovitch provides an answer: ‘what makes his work great?’ In fact, I should rephrase the question to – what makes interiors of today powerful. Beyond the photographs and the personal account of Yovanovitch himslef, who gives insights to his thinking process,

“The true expression of human spirit,” “like human blood.” In these poetic words, Japanese artist Noboyuki Tanaka (b. 1959) has described lacquer, his medium, when hosting me at his Kanazawa-based studio this morning. In his art, Tanaka embodies everything I have been seeking for in my current trip in Japan: contemporary artists employing traditional Japanese

In the mountainous Chubu region in Central Japan, along the Sho River, among lush rice fields and breathtaking landscape, sits the historic village of Shirakawa-go. It was registered as a World’s Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995, and has since captured the imagination of those fascinated by Japanese culture. We were there this morning. We