Daniella On Design

It is considered the most prestigious design award, the Beazley Design Prize, annually curated and hosted by the Design Museum of London. The winners for the Best Design of 2017, announced yesterday, all touch the intersection of design and social sensibilities, demonstrating the power of design to shape the world and to solve its problems. […]

of you thought that Louis Kahn invented the museum of natural light with his masterpiece The Kimbell Art Museum, which the American architect completed in Fort Worth, TX in 1972, then you are not alone. Yet, legend says that Kahn was heavily inspired by what is considered the first and prime example of the modern

This is to congratulate my friend and colleague, the brilliant interior design Amy Lau for being included in the prestigious Luxe Interiors + Design’s 2018 Gold List. Through her immense knowledge in history, impeccable eye, educated taste, and connecting with the contemporary design world, Amy has created interiors for people who understand art, design, and

Wendell Castle (1932-2018). It is hard to believe that he is gone. And so sad. Often called the Dean of American Design, and the Father of the Studio Furniture Movement, the Rochester-based visionary furniture maker should be credited for elevating furniture into the territory of fine art. His immense talent has been recognized in countless

When French design began moving away from the industrial, machine-age aesthetics and social agenda of the postwar years into luxurious, handcrafted, elegant, chic design, which came to reflect the Art of Living movement that swept the country from the late sixties and throughout the seventies, couturier Pierre Cardin created his own series of furniture. Perceiving

Congratulating Montreal-born London-based designer Philippe Malouin, recipient of the prestigious Designer of the Year Award by Wallpaper Magazine, whose concrete pavilion presented by Salon 94 Design at Design Miami/ I adored (below). The pavilion, which was discussed by Paul Johnson in my program Collecting Design in the fall, was created for the Superbenches project, an

​Congratulations, Wendell Castle for receiving the Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts from the Wunsch Americana Foundation (WAF). What a brilliant choice. I cannot think of anyone who represents the sprit of American craft and design, its innovation, originality, and excellence, more than Castle, whose presence in the world of design

It wasn’t only a design icon, but the Paimio Sanatorium, which Finnish architect Alvar Aalto’s (1898-1976) completed in 1933, has come to capture the intersection of the Modern Movement with Nordic aesthetic sensibility. This icon also came to symbolize the power of modernism to shape a new type of architecture, and in this case, the

The term ‘collectible design’ has become overrated and glorified in recent years, starring in lifestyle and interior magazines, and more often misinterpreted than attached to its real outline. With this phenomenon, the questions of what is ‘collectible’ contemporary design, and what makes contemporary masterpieces ‘collectible’ have occupied anyone related to this market: architects, collectors, curators,

I am excited to open the lecture series The Tastemakers for the first time. In devoting the first session to the interwar years, I will speak about American dancer and activist Josephine Baker (1906-75), the first African-American to rise to the world’s stage, and the perfect example of a  trendsetter of those glorious years. She