Daniella On Design

He was born 300 years today, published a bestseller, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, and changed the history of furniture design and branding. Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779) has become a household name in the furniture world since this publication in the mid-eighteenth century, and has been considered the most influential furniture designer in history. The book […]

Friends and family members spoke last evening in celebrating the memory of George R. Kravis II, the renowned design collector who passed in February, at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Kravis’s immense passion for design, his endless curiosity, generosity, and warm personality, as well as his gifts to the Museum were all highlighted. I

This week was marked by one of the most important annual events in the architectural world, the 2018 Pritzker Prize, handed in Toronto to Indian architect, urban planner, and educator Balkrishna Doshi (b. 1927), recognizing 70-year career. It was 67 years ago that Doshi attended the International Congress of Modern Architecture in Hoddesdon, England, where

At 32, he was commissioned to design the interior of what has since been considered the single greatest private commission of modern times, a 20,000-acre kingdom on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, the property of financier Sir James Goldsmith. This is how Parisian-born, NYC-based Robert Couturier began his spectacular, cosmopolitan, and successful career. Style, taste,

It was a special, beautiful evening, filled with hope, light, and memory. Remembering Wendell Castle, an evening at Robert, the restaurant overlooking Columbus Circle at top floor of the Museum of Arts and Design, where Castle had shown his work for decades. While his immense talent and legacy have been recognized in countless awards, exhibitions,

Paul McCobb (1917–1969) was a renowned industrial designer who worked in New York during the 50s and 60s, creating furniture for such companies as Bell & Howell, Winchendon Furniture Company, O’Hearn Furniture, and Calvin Furniture. His lines had often become best sellers, known at the time for their democratic principles, low price point, and chic, light,

If there is one clear conclusion that I can draw from what presented in the current NYC x Design (New York City Design Week), is that the 1980s are back. 2018 is witnessing a strong revival of the 1980s. The most interesting and surprising exhibition presented in Manhattan is ‘German Avant-Garde Design of the 1980s:

The task of defining Israeli design is not an easy one. For years, scholars and curators have sought to find the DNA of Israeli design, posing the leading question on whether there is an ‘Israeliness’ that can be traced in the design cultured produced in Israel. But without success. I was one of them. Now,

In a new talk show on design and architecture, Spring Dialogues, which will air in June, I will be hosting the most fascinating voices and talents who have come to shape the design world of the season: architects, interior designers, curators, writers, influencers, editors, and critics, who through presenting their work and views in a

You cannot understand New York City living without knowing the work of Rosario Candela, the most legendary NY architect of the 20s and the 30s. Called ‘the Bernini of the Upper East Side’ by my friend and colleague David Netto, Candela’s career emerged when the culture of the skyscraper had become the touchstone of New