Daniella On Design

Always look for the roots of their passion, when meeting great collectors, because the roots highlight the essence of collecting. In the case of Jim Elkind, it goes all the way back to his childhood in Long Island, growing up in a house filled with masterpieces of mid-century design. It is there, that his eye […]

Above? ​Father Couturier and the Avant-Garde The Magic of Carlo Scarpa Balkrishna Doshi, recipient of the Pritzker Prize Futuro House is celebrating 50 Toward a Concrete Utopia Architecture Pilgrimage in Veneto Three Generations of an Architecture Dynasty I am featured in Archinect Should the Glasgow School of Art Rebuilt? Gropius Memory Palace

Above: Wendell Castle (1932-2018) Making America Modern Visiting the Dead Sea Chris Schanck: Unhomely The Tastemaker and House Beautiful The Art of Mid-Century Design The Haas Brothers at the Baas By Charles Trevelyan The Art of the Restorer Baroquisme by Vincenzo De Cotiis

Above: Nicholas Kilner: The Historian. Skyarte, April 2018. What does it mean to be a Modernist Today. Design Miami/ 2018 Hugues Magen – The Explorer. Skyarte, April 2018. Taste, Design, and Influence – Talking with David Gill. Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, November 2019. The McCobb Mystique Amy Lau: The Curator/ Skyarte, April 2018 Wharton

Getting ready for the holidays, and concluding another successful season of my flag program Collecting Design, with hosting the master of interior décor, Joe Nahem. The secret of crafting great, successful, timeless, elegant interiors is one which has occupied those creating and those seeking to live in good interiors which enhance and express who they

On Daniella on Design. Above: Mercedes Benz 300SL Chaise by Joaquim Tenreiro, courtesy R & Company Traditional Thai beach house in the Phang Nga, Thailand. Villa Siam by Eggarat Wongcharit. The Schlörwagen, a prototype aerodynamic rear-engine passenger vehicle, by Karl Schlör (1911–1997) and presented in 1939. Bar by François-Xavier Lalanne, offered at Christie’s, and realised $4,572,500

In the enormous world of furniture, the definition of a unique identity has become more and more challenging. Yet, visiting the studio of Egg Collective with my class this morning, it has immediately become clear that the three founders, Hillary Petrie, Crystal Ellis, and Stephanie Beamer have found their own place and voice in the

​Here is a super important exhibition, which exemplified the fascination with 20th-century design. The interest in the design culture of the mid-century, developed in ‘other’ countries has recently occupied scholars, museums, and historians, seeking to uncover the counterparts of the US, France, Italy, and Scandinavia and to fill enormous gaps. The work and legacy of

sddfsf Last week, I have moderated a fascinating panel discussion at Design Miami/ entitled: Individualism and the Spectrum of Modernism. Presented by Kohler, whose yearly global theme for 2018 is called Spectrum of Modernism: Minimalism to Maximalism, it came to define the notion of Modernism as it has been perceived and interpreted today. We looked

The name Leo Gerstenzang is not familiar to most people, but his invention, the Q-Tip has played a part of everyone’s daily life since the 20s, and made its inventor fortune. When his daughter Zuita and her husband Joseph Akston, founder of Art Magazine, got married in the 70s, they built a home in Florida