Daniella On Design

Tonight, the Cooper Hewitt is celebrating the 2018 National Design Awards, which comes to acknowledge innovation and excellence in American design. In the category of Architecture, this year’s award goes to Weiss-Manfredi, a New-York-City-based firm founded by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, who will appear in the upcoming Harvest Dialogues. The prestigious Award was given to […]

Harvest Dialogues marks the second season of my talk show about the design world. In fact, we started filming this week at Carpenters Workshop Gallery! Some of my readers have asked me to reveal the list of guests, so here they are. In the Architecture episode: Thomas Mellins & Kate Ascher discuss the fascinating history of New York City real estate

Domestic culture is one of the main areas of my passion for design, and I always find it intriguing when a museum exhibition or new published scholarship appears. Therefore, I am waiting in anticipation to the upcoming exhibition ‘Home of the Future,’ which will open next month at the London Design Museum. It explores a

This morning, I have guided my group in the Met’s exhibition ‘Chippendale’s Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker,’ which comes to celebrate 300th anniversary to the birth of the most famous household name in the history of furniture. Chippendale is not a style; nor is it the heavy, carved mahogany furniture associated

Big thank you to design historian Marilyn Friedman whom I hosted this morning at my program ‘Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights’ at the New York School of Interior Design in celebrating her new and fantastic publication Making America Modern. The class of this morning was devoted to the distinctive modernist design produced in America during

The 1914 Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne had marked a turning point in the history of the Modern Movement in Germany, dividing the fathers of the Movement into two camps: the artistic and the rationalistic. In it, Walter Gropius and Alfred Meyer presented the model of their recently-completed Fagus Factory in Alfeld on the Leine, Germany

Ceramics is everywhere. It has recently moved to the forefront of the contemporary art and design worlds as a medium utilized to convey ideas and narratives more than at any given time before. Peter Lane, the renowned NYC-based artist, is known for creating Brutalist and artistic architectural installations — in clay. Responsible for many large-scale

Whether in fashion, home accessories, interiors, gardening, or tabletop, Carolyne Roehm’s magnificent sense of style has made her an iconic American tastemaker. In her recent career, as an author of twelve books, she has become an educator, teaching the public about the art of living, about the value of living with beauty. But her latest

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908 – 1979) was not only a brilliant businessman and a liberal politician, who served as the 41st Vice President and as the 49th New York Governor, but he was also the most passionate art collector, whose taste reflected his endless appetite, understanding, and love for art. His friend Alfred Barr, the first

     When you visit the new exquisite exhibition “Vallauris: An Expression of Ceramic” at Magen H Gallery, you immediately understand the allure of French mid-century art pottery. There is something humble, chic, and elegant that you won’t find in studio ceramics created anywhere else. I spent the evening at the opening of the show