Daniella On Design

It has been a long time since the term ‘Bauhaus’ has been capitalized for describing the design culture developed in interwar Germany by the Modern Movement, and with the forthcoming Bauhaus centennial of 2019, we will start seeing more and more international events, exhibitions, and scholarship honoring the innovation and heritage of this pivotal educational […]

There are many definitions to ‘modern Design.’ To me, it is design that corresponds, represents, and manifests the zeitgeist. And as such, all 111 fashion items presented in the new exhibition ‘Items: Is Fashion Modern?’ organized and curated by Paola Antonelli at MoMA, are ‘modern.’ There are several types of museum shows on fashion, and

Achtober is New York City’s Architecture and Design Month, the annual festival of architecture tours, lectures, films, and exhibitions taking place during October. It is an event that comes to celebrate the beauty of New York architecture and to highlight its distinguished fabric. This year the program is particularly rich and interesting. Among the participants

What an extraordinary week, working with directors Valeria Parisi and Michele Mally on two TV programs on design and tastemakers. We have visited breathtaking homes, met with fascinating talents, spoke with design legends, explored territories of aesthetics, taste, and chic at the forefront of these realities, and got inspired over and over again. Here are

With the wealth of new possibilities introduced by digital technology, many designers have been seeking to reproduce the quality and energy of liquid, the waves and fluidity of the ocean and rivers in solid materials; to freeze powerful waves into three dimensional forms, translating soft textures into hard materials. It always makes me thinking of

AD Intérieurs is an annual curated exhibition of interior décor initiated and produced by AD (through September 20, at the Monnaie de Paris), taken place in Paris. With the aim of commissioning interiors of the highest level, showcasing the wide range of professional artisans involved in art of interior décor, presenting contemporary concepts, and with exposing

This is a topic that has a special place in my heart, not only because it was the theme of my Ph.D. dissertation, entitled ‘Hotel Design in British Mandate Palestine: Modernism and the Zionist Vision,’ but also because I have come from a German Zionist family who had contributed immensely to the building of the

​This annual design program has already become synonymous with the end of the summer and the beginning of the new season. It is the exhibition held at R & Company every September, curated by a guest interior designer, selecting objects from the gallery’s collection and creating interior scheme. The choices are always brilliant. This time,

Here is a rare opportunity for collectors of architecture to acquire a real icon, Case Study House #10. No other project had captured the imagination of Americans living during Mad Men era more than the influential Case Study House Program. This experimental project that came to promote American residential architecture in California, was sponsored by

The new coffee book “Ornament is Crime: Modernist Architecture” by Matt Gibberd and Albert, co-founders of a London-based real estate agency, is a celebration of the poetry of modernism. Named after Adolf Loos’ seminal essay and lecture of 1908, this publication hails architecture sans ornament with black-and-white images illuminated by relevant quotes by architects, poets,