Daniella On Design

Born on January 9th (118 years ago), let’s remember visionary and interdisciplinary architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, the rock star of the American architecture world of the 60s. Through self-promoting his utopian geodesic domes, had become the guru of the futuristic movement of the moment. When MoMA presented Fuller’s ‘Dome over Manhattan’ project, a transparent canopy covering […]

Who is the interior designer? What are his knowledge, skills, and ability? The Council for Interior Design Qualification (CIDQ) has just released its newly updated Definition of Interior Design. Originally developed in 2004, the prior definition has become widely recognized and cited as the definitive, comprehensive definition for the practice of interior design by government

An exciting, yet largely ignored moment in the history of architecture. In concluding the series on the iconic homes of the 20th century, which I have been teaching in Tel Aviv this month, I have devoted the last session to the 70s, including Antti Lovag’s famed Maison Bernard. The ambitious and enormous residence, also known

In celebrating Bauhaus100, Hungrarian-born designer Marcel Breuer has been receiving a special attention. While his name is synonymous with one famed chair, known as Model B3, or the ‘Wassily Chair’ (named after his friend and Bauhaus colleague Wassily Kandinsky), Breuer’s career has spanned decades, and has come to represent one of the most successful Bauhaus

In a new seminar which I am teaching in Tel Aviv this month, I explore the most iconic homes of the 20th century, illuminating the relationships between patrons and architects, between modern architecture/design and the growing taste for the modern, and in the stories behind the scenes. This week, focusing on the 50s, I have

When Florence Knoll (1918-2019), the design legend who died today, went to study at Cranbrook in 1932, she didn’t know that this school would come shape her life story. It is here that she had met her lifelong friends and collaborators Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames, and Harry Bertoia, and it was at the Detroit design

When I have read this week about the results that the dazzling collection of Nelson and Happy Rockefeller fetched at Sotheby’s, and about their eternal love for the finest ceramics, largely represented by the Swan Service, the ultimate and most famous dinner service of all time, I was thinking about a radio talk that I

The most ambitious and well-known project that the Modern Movement established in Frankfurt am Mainת was the social housing projects, which the city’s architect Ernst May built, creating the forerunner of housing construction for generations to come (below). A new exhibition at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum and the Historisches Museum Frankfurt comes to position the city as a key center of

My program Design and Decorative Arts in NYC is celebrating its 13th anniversary this spring, and registration to the spring 2019 edition has opened yesterday. This unique, curated program, the only one of its kind, comes to provide educational design experience through visits to the season’s most intriguing events, exhibitions, and buildings, and through personal