Daniella On Design

When Halston and Calvin Klein established their fashion houses, positioning themselves as the ultimate tastemakers of the American fashion world, Norman Norell (1900-1972), thirty years their senior worked hard and privately at his atelier, designing chic, elegant fashion, quietly shaping the notion of American style; for this, he is called ‘Dean of American Fashion’ in […]

Since opening his studio in Eindhoven in the 90s, Piet Hein Eek has become the king of scrap wood. He not only makes furniture and objects of the recycled, and leftover material, but has created a successful empire out of scrap. In an age that respects sustainable design and environmentally friendly materials, Eek has found

I have just learned that design connoisseur, philanthropist, and radio man George R. Kravis II passed late last week, after battling with cancer for a couple of years. He was 79. Perhaps because he made his career in radio, establishing stations and was the early founder of FM station in this country, all based in

Congratulating John C. Waddell, recipient of the 2018 Iris Foundation Award. To me, Waddell represents the ultimate design connoisseur, whose scholarly rigor, contribution to collecting, documenting, and exhibiting American modernism have come to shape the field. In fact, without his input, this entire territory would have looked way more dull and underdeveloped. Waddell’s gift to

For those living in the Western Bloc during the Cold War, life in communist Soviet Union was a mystery, and one that had come to capture the imagination of the millions. While the so-called Kitchen Debate, when during the American exhibition in Moscow in 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev were

When teaching the chapter on mid-century in my new course The Tastemakers, I have given a great attention to Elizabeth Gordon, the legendary editor of House Beautiful, who has done for the American home what today’s editors of shelter magazines would not have dared to even think of. She was innovative, critical, political, and progressive,

The single-owner design collection of renowned Los-Angeles-based antiques dealer Joel Chen, of JF Chen Antiques, which will be offered in an online auction at Christie’s next week, is certainly the talk of the week. With four decades of experience as a dealer, Chen has acquired a refined, educated taste for fine design of various periods.

Three generations of an exceptional prolific family of architects have come to shape the built fabric and the ethos of Israeli architecture with extraordinary and unparalleled achievements. The body of iconic and influential buildings, public structures, urban developments, hotels, court houses, libraries, music halls, and private homes has brought the Rechter family to the pantheon

Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA (1926-2018). Kamprad not only invented lifestyle, and global ‘democratic design,’ but also revolutionized design distribution, bringing Swedish national identity to the world’s stage. Thanks to IKEA, people all over the world have embraced the simplicity over the stuffy, the plan over the chintz, the modern over the traditional. Kamprad founded

​On his birthday, let’s remember brilliant Mexican-Spanish architect/engineer Félix Candela who was born 108 years ago today. His contribution to the story of modern architecture was the thin structural and organic forms, which he developed using reinforced-concrete, which have brought him into the international spotlight during the 60s. His famed Los Manantiales restaurant in the Xochimilco