Daniella On Design

In an age, when personalized taste has become a commodity, and designing a process of thinking, education has been valued as the most substantial agent for elevating, polishing our taste. The role of the tastemaker has not been as crucial as it is today since the late years of the 19th century, when possibilities were […]

 Is architecture by Jewish Architects is Jewish Architecture? A question that the 4th International Congress on Jewish Architecture in Hamburg, a joint project of the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg, and the Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture, Braunschweig/Jerusalem comes to address. It comes to re‐examine the biographies of Jewish

The Design Curio is one of the more exciting programs in the landscape of the collectible design fairs. This platform, which was initiated by Design Miami/ in 2014, comes to provide designers and curators with an opportunity to present installations in the format of cabinets of curiosity within the Fair. Here is an early look

The mission of my course “Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights,” at the New York School of Interior Design, is to educate architects, interior designers, and art collectors in the complex and fascinating territory of collectible design, to personalize taste, to open the window to extraordinary possibilities when blending past and present, and ultimately, to develop

Great news for all lovers of New York City architecture, and particularly for those admiring Brutalism. Blue Crow Media has recently published the official Concrete New York Map, an architectural guide that comes to illuminate fifty (50) of the city’s finest Brutalist buildings. Those who tend to think of NYC as the mecca of Art Deco

​For the occasion of its upcoming exhibition ‘Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes,’ opens April 20th, 2018, the New-York Historical Society collaborates with Stuart Weitzman in a footwear design competition. New York metro-area high school students are invited submit a unique shoe design in one of two categories: Socially-Conscious

When I was told that Pernett Perriand and Jacques Barsac have provided photographic material and original documents from their archive as well as consigned one piece (lot #10) to Artcurial’s upcoming monograph design sale French Masters: Charlotte Perriand, I have realized that this event would become into an extraordinary occasion to look at the career of

Ceramic art has enjoyed a revived interest in recent years, and has been starring at the forefront of the collectible design world, which illuminates artists that explore with the clay and take ceramics to new horizons. One of them is Los-Angeles-based American ceramist Jay Kvapil, whose solo show Landscapes has opened last week at Magen

Before you plan a visit the newly-opened exhibition ‘Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age’ at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, you have to get prepared. Forget about what you think of as a furniture workshop, and start thinking of science labs, where scientists wearing white coats experimenting with algorithms and digital technology

When you walk into Demisch Danant’s new exhibition ‘The Way of the Essential,’ you immediately feel the power of simplicity to enhance everyday life, and the ability to achieve the epitome of chic and elegance through simplicity. The exhibition comes to present the various manifestations of French minimalist design developed from the late 1950s to