Daniella On Design

What is common between David Bowie, Andy Warhol, Diana Ross, Twiggy, Angelica Huston, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the Duchess of Windsor? They were all members of one super prestigious club. The Best-Dressed List. While the web is filled with hundreds of lists, making it hard to navigate and to really understand the notion of style, […]

Karl Lagerfeld famously said that ‘trendy is the last stage before tacky.’ He always preferred the timeless over changing trends. His monochromatic furniture collection which he created before he died early this year, now on view at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York, perfectly captures this philosophy.  Lagerfeld was an admirer of great design and

For the Renaissance men, the Studiolo was this outstanding room that served for study and contemplation, the most invested space in any palazzo, and one which came to signify its patron as a ‘Renaissance Man.’ Typically the Studiolo had its wall surfaces entirely covered with meticulously inlaid wood inlays, called intarsia, depicting books, musical instruments,

  We started filming Harvest Dialogues, 2019, with the most intriguing talents in the worlds of design, architecture, and fashion, and with so many surprises. Stay tuned as we will air on October 27th. This program could not have been made without the support of Rago Auctions; Elizabeth Collective; Maison Gerard; Anne Fontaine; Mahnaz Collection.

What is common between starchitect Steven Holl, architecture promoter and philathropist  Phyllis Lambert, and Sharon Prince, Founder of the Grace Farms Foundation? Steven Holl Architects (SHA) has recently completed the first-ever expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts located in National Mall, marking the Washington, D.C.-based institution’s largest design upgrade in its

What is in common between Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, and Ruth Asawa beside the fact that they were all accomplished designers in the mid-century years? A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, entitled ‘In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury,’ comes to reveal how their

No other single chair has captured the spirit of modernism more than the Barcelona Chair, considered one of the best-designed chairs of all time. While commonly believed to be created by Mies van der Rohe, the Barcelona Chair was in fact a collaboration with his colleague and lover, Lilly Reich. The two created this chair

The Museum at FIT has had many reasons to celebrate this week, and it is all taking on a French flavor. This accomplished museum for fashion is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week with an opening of “Paris, Capital of Fashion,” an major exhibition curated by my former teacher, fashion historian and the Director of

​The program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, made it to the list of the 25 most important events in art, design, architecture, fashion, and everything in between. The fall edition will begin on October 15th and will take place at the Center for Architecture; registration is open now.  I will be hosting some of the most

It is hard to believe that nearly two years have passed since Wendell Castle (1932-2018), also called ‘the Dean of American Design’ passed. The presence of his six-decade super productive career has strongly been felt in many design events of the past year. This evening I attended the opening night of Friedman Benda’s new solo