Daniella On Design

Furniture enjoys a great interest in museum shows this summer. The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design,’ at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska is a traveling exhibition that was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida. It focuses on American design with a wide chronological scope, spanning from the […]

Architecture pilgrimage is one of my favorite forms of travel. It sharpens your taste, makes you understand and feel architecture in a way you cannot encounter through photographs, and it brings joy and peace. This time, while visiting Basel for the Art Basel week, we took a day trip to see one of the most

What I have always found intriguing about architect’ furniture, is tracing their architecture thinking in the object. An exercise I often hand my students is identifying whether a piece of furniture was designed by a fashion designer, industrial designer, artist, or architect. It teaches them how to look, think, and create. Now, a new exhibition,

While most critics have focused on the Nazi connection, one of my favorite chapters in the new biography ‘The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century’ by Mark Lamster (published by Little, Brown, and Company) tells the story of the seminal exhibition ‘Modern Architecture: International Exhibit of 1932, which Johnson curated

Born on June 7th, Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928). Since his legacy was rediscovered in the 1990s, he has been hailed as the radical hero, who pioneered early modern design,bridging from the traditional values of the Arts and Crafts Movement, his contemporary, to plant the seeds of Modernism. Mackintosh was a visionary, who

Above: Caterpillar, Lamps in concrete and glass, but Dror  Kaspi for ARDOMA. Syntax 2018, by Yael Atzmony Crocodile, by Sarit Shany-Hay. Service in Blue and White in Molded Porcelain, but Maiyan Ben Yona

Above: PK 24 by Poul Kjaerholm, presented by Gokelaere and Robinson Low table with plant holder, by Xavier-Féal, 1970, presented by Galerie Meubles et Lumieres Chairs by Gio Ponti, 1949, presented by Galleria Giustini / Stagetti Bench from the new NULL collection by Studio BUZAO, presented by Gallery ALL Plank Cabinet 2, by Andrea Branzi,

As we have become more educated in Brazilian mid-century design over the past decade, and as connoisseurship keeps developing, we learn more and more about the key players who pioneered modern design in Brazil and about their own contribution. With a couple of exhibitions and publications, led by R & Company, Brazilian design of the

There is a question which has been popped up in discussions within the collectible design world over and over again, and it is related to the territory of contemporary furniture and lighting. As this is territory has developed at the heart of the world’s finest design galleries, which have been taking the leading role in selecting,