Daniella On Design

It was a magical evening. Last evening came to celebrate Danish Modern and to illuminate on its current state and identity. I moderated a panel which concluded a successful spring season of the program Collecting Design, taking place at the Center for Architecture for the past 10 weeks. This evening was supported by Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, […]

At this year’s Kips Bay Decorator Show House, I was particularly moved by the entry gallery and lower staircase, designed by Richard Rabel. These spaces stand out for the historic narrative which gives them layers of colors, textures, and stories. In creating these spaces, Rabel was inspired by a very specific moment in the 19th-century, called

Terreform One is a nonprofit activist design group, which aims to create new ways of living, or treating the environment, energy, cities, and landscapes. It seeks to use of technology and science to build an optimistic future. At the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Terreform One presents a model of the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Building. When it

In visual art, Minimalism has had its own rational rules: dedication, discipline, clarity, purpose, geometric and cubic forms, repetition, natural surfaces, and a strong relationship between material and space. All of these characters are fundamental in Martin Szekely’s new work, which is presented in a solo show entitled ‘The Drawers and I‘ at Bruxelles-based gallery

Conversations between past and future, between the universal and Venice’s heritage, the timeless and the current, between design, art, and architecture are all at the core of DYSFUNCTIONAL, a new exhibition, opened this week in Venice by Carpenters Workshop Gallery and Lombard Odier, in celebrating the Venice Art Biennale. The gallery’s most ambitious project to

Will the newly-opened Met’s Costume Institute mega exhibition ‘Camp: Notes on Fashion,’ turn us all New Yorkers campy? Will it inspire us to ditch our serious black-white-navy-cream dresses? I don’t think so. But, it is fascinating, entertaining, experience of extravaganza, and will definitely turn the premier blockbuster and headline-maker of this summer. It also acts as an

Bauhaus 100. In celebrating the 100th anniversary for the founding of the Bauhaus, I have devoted an episode to the famed and influential design school and its legacy. It was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius by merging two existing schools in Weimar Germany, and closed down just 14 years later when the Nazis came

Spring Dialogues. ​The most substantial expression of type of architecture promoted by the Bauhaus was built in Tel Aviv during the 1930s. It was called the White City for its thousands of pristine, streamlined white buildings, clustered across the coast of young Tel Aviv. In fact, this built fabric soon became synonymous with the story

Spring Dialogues. Through its own expositions and the projects of its students and teachers during the 1920s, the Bauhaus promoted the taste for minimalist, industrial interiors. This modernist concept was applied to both housing projects and luxurious homes, becoming the forerunner of modern interior in the century to come. Marianne Eggler, design expert, studied the

Above: Richard Rabel Interiors + Art, LTD (photo credit Nickolas Sargent). Jeff Lincoln Interiors, Inc. (photo credit Nickolas Sargent) Eve Robinson Associates (photo credit Marco Ricca) Sarah Bartholomew Design (photo credit Nickolas Sargent) Pappas Miron Design – (photo credit Nickolas Sargent) Artist Studio by Young Huh, photo by Ngoc Minh Ngo Cullman & Kravis Associates,