Daniella On Design

No other type of Japanese object has come to capture the imagination of designers across the globe as the chōchin lanterns. While Isamu Noguchi was the first to bring them into the narrative of mid-century American design with his series of the super of Akari, the series which enjoyed a tremendous commercial success, they have […]

A mid-century architecture icon is on the market for sale. Richard Neutra’s Chuey House is back on the market. The gem, designed by the Austrian, Los-Angeles-based modernist in 1956 for poet Josephine Ain Chuey, is situated on a spectacular land on Sunset Plaza Drive. ‘You are an alchemist who has transmuted earth, house, and sky

So pleased and honored that my flag program Collecting Design has just got accredited by the AIA (American Institute of Architects), and thus any architect attending the course would earn 6 LUs and 1.5 HSWs. This follows the recent relocation of the program to the Center for Architecture/AIA in New York. This unique program and

The talk of the day in the architecture/real estate world: Amazon is close to signing a lease for at the Chrysler Building. What has made this skyscraper a New York City architecture icon, and an example of the finest building of its time, or as described by the NYT, “the single most important emblem of

There was a certain allure attached to plywood furniture, the magical material created by gluing together layers and layers of cross-grained veneers. While the technology was first invented in the 18th century and extensively utilized during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, its heyday came with the birth of modern design. Plywood was not

Celebrating 100th to the birth of Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian-American actress and socialite, whose connection to design history is by the house in which she had lived in the 40s, while married to Conrad Hilton. After crowned as Miss Hungary in 1936, Gabor emigrated to the United States in 1941 and married Hilton (1887-1979) in that

Another centenary that will be elaborately celebrated in 2019 (April 25th) is the foundation of the Bauhaus, the most radical and influential art and design school of the 20th century, which was ultimately an immensely successful cultural exporter. The school, founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 in Weimar, and moved to Dessau in 1925 and

This week, I am going to devote the blog to the centenary (or two) of a couple of design and architecture events and people. The first is to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the influential writer, thinker, artist, and social reformer John Ruskin (1819 -1900), who can be also considered as the

My flag program Collecting Design is moving to its new home in the spring of 2019 at the Center of Architecture/AIA. It comes to educate those who care for taste and design and to reveal the world of collectible modern and contemporary design. Lectures are accompanied by conversations with world leading experts, curators, collectors, dealers,

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) is an order of chivalry, which comes to reward contributions to the arts, sciences, and other fields. The list of the 2019 New Years Honors includes of British architect John Pawson. Pawson, whose signature vision has gained him an international acclaim, is one of the most ambitious