Daniella On Design

He was born on April 14th, German architect Peter Behrens (1868-1940), the first to design an electrical clock, electrical kettle, and corporate brand identity, but whose career took a turn when he joined Hitler’s architectural forces. He also mentored three of the formative architects of the Modern Movement, who began their careers at his Berlin […]

Yoga is the engine of my creativity, the power beyond the performance, the spiritual fulfillness, and the single most substantial agent of transformation that I have ever experienced. I have practiced Mysore-Style Ashtanga, also known as the most vigorous of all yoga schools for 17 years. My grandmother, Henrietta Reich, sister of renowned German writer

Moving between fashion and nature has informed the life journey of Anne Fontaine, the famed designer who has made her name for reinventing the white shirt. Since founding her ultra-successful fashion brand, with her husband-partner Ari Zlotkin, over three decades ago, Fontaine has not only expanded to include lines of ready-to-wear stylish fashion in her own

The photo below of her own home captures everything that has made Kelly Behun the rising star of the New York interior design world. Like in all of her projects, her home manifests the ‘curated interior.’ It is as personal, fresh, unexpected, and indicative of her deep knowledge in history, and her eternal passion for

In anticipating of the upcoming Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, which, at this time, presents radical solutions about the future of our planet, I was thrilled and inspired by the new architectural scheme, called Oceanix City, unveiled this week by BIG. This concept floating city, designed for a population of 10,000,

What we have learnt from design curator Christian Larsen, an expert on Brazilian design and material culture, and guest speaker in this week’s program Collecting Design, is that Brazilian furniture of the mid-century years is not only about the rich textured local hardwoods, but  that it had first and foremost come to evoke local lifestyle,

In the landscape of the small community of collectors of industrial design, George R. Kravis II stood out for his passion, generosity, curiosity, commitment, and for his contribution to the development of connoisseurship in industrial design. He was certainly a pioneer. When he passed away last spring, a memorial was held at the Cooper Hewitt

It seems that everything was said and written about Charles James (1906-78), the British American designer who is considered the first true American couturier, who dressed all the most stylish and glamour American women of the 1930s, Marlene Dietrich; Millicent Rogers; and Austine McDonnell Hearst, to name a few. His work was largely examined in

Opened today 100 years ago and change the face of modern design and education. In celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, I will be devoting an episode to the famed and influential design school and its legacy in the upcoming Spring Dialogues, which will air next month. It was founded in 1919

 Since my studies in graduate school in the 90s, I have always thought of American folk art as belonging to folklore culture, created in the countryside, in rural communities living far from the mainstream of the art world, by those trained in popular crafts. But, after visiting the new show ‘Made in New York City: