Daniella On Design

A conversation about the third volume of the superb series Makers of Modern architecture, which was published last month by Martin Filler. This book teaches us the value of great architecture, how to find soul in buildings, and how to sharpen our perceptions. And it reads like a thriller. 

Last evening, I have attended the opening of a new show at R & Company Gallery, accompanied with two young and ambitious collectors who are eager to live with great design. I wanted to show them that anyone who really wants to live with good design can collect today in the most affordable way. So

It lasted four generations, over a centuryת in the hands of the family, Adolphe Stoclet’s spectacular collection of African and Oceanic Art, which will be sold at Christie’s next week. The name of this art patron is well known to anyone interested in design and architecture for the iconic, almost mythical house, Palais Stoclet now

What I loved about meeting French designer Emmanue Babled (b. 1967), who guided my class through his new solo show ‘Immersion,’ at Twenty First Galley, just hours before its opening, is his equal engagement with innovation, craft processes, and design. In this exhibition, Lisbon-based Babled presents objects crafted in a remarkable array of materials fabricated

The seeds of modern design, developed in America during the 30s and 40s have been the focus of several exhibitions and publications in recent years. Now, the Wolfsonian is opening an exhibition “Deco: Luxury to Mass Market,” examining the modern’s triumph in it hometown, Miami Beach. I was thrilled to learn about this exhibition because

If you don’t believe that architecture can be equal to poetry; if you don’t support reproduction of buildings; if you don’t agree that a structure can be perfect or intellectual, or that an abstraction has the power to bring one to tears, then run to the new documentary Mies on Scene (Directed by: Pep Martín

What I loved about the new book ‘American Originals‘ by photographer William Abranowicz (published by Vendome Press) is the illumination and the focus on the notion that the home is the most ultimate and substantial expression of our identity, that the objects we choose for our surroundings have something to say about who we are.