Daniella On Design

​As we look forward to celebrating New Year’s Eve at a dinner party at friends’ home, overlooking Central Park tonight, I was searching for an object, one object that best celebrates this glamorous Manhattan moment. It was an easy pick, the chromium-plated ‘Manhattan’ cocktail shaker service, which American star-designer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) designed in […]

New Year, and registration to the spring edition of my program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights at the New York School of Interior Design is open now. I am looking forward to an exciting season, full of fresh, never visited before material, which corresponds and highlights one of the most dynamic, influential territories in the

Is there any distinctiveness to furniture designed by architects? If you ask me, the answer is yes. Design created by architects has its own allure and character. In fact, one of the first projects I like to assign my design students is to look closely at objects in the classroom, and to identify whether they

Above: Top Instagram Post for 2017: Art Nouveau Entryway in Brussels  2. The Globe Garden Chair by Peter Opsvik 3. Sebastian Errazuriz with his Spiky Furniture 4. The 1931 Fischer Corner Desk by Wharton Esherick 5. Richard Serra at the Guggenheim 6. Interior in China by Xu Fu-Min 7. ‘The Kiss,’ Lamp by Atelier van

Tickets to the upcoming program ‘Wharton Esherick: Synthesizing Art, Design, Crafts, Architecture’ which I will moderate at the New York School of Interior Design (Wednesday, March 28, at 6 pm) are available now. Considered the godfather of the Studio Furniture Movement and inventor of Art Furniture, Wharton Esherick (1887-1970) was a visionary who synthesized art,

Thank you, Paul Johnson for a stunning, passionate, inspiring presentation at the concluding session of the fall 2017 edition of the program ‘Collecting Design’ at the New York School of Interior Design this morning. Johnson, who founded his Johnson Trading Gallery in 2000 can be credited as one of the pioneers, those dealers who have

In approaching the end of 2017, I would like to highlight one memorable auction moment when Man Ray’s print of Noire et Blanche, was sold last month, breaking several records when fetching €2,688,750 at Christie’s. This famed image, which first appeared in the spring issue of French Vogue in 1926, was purchased for the legendary

This is to thank Doug Johnston, his wife, Tomoe Matsuoka, and his gallerist Patrick Parrish for an incredible, inspiring morning at the studio in Brooklyn, to which I was invited with my class to a truly memorable design experience. A graduate from Cranbrook Academy of Art with an architecture degree, Johnston has devoted his career

I am thrilled to announce my upcoming new course, opened this spring at the New York of Interior Design, ‘The Tastemakers.’ The leading question that this course comes to address is – Who are the tastemakers? While the dictionary says they are those deciding and influencing on what is fashionable, in reality, they are much

Let’s remember Viennese architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) on his 147th birthday. While remembered more for his controversial essays on modern design, than for his architectural legacy, Loos was a practicing architect who designed seminal projects and had his own contribution to the ethos of the Modern Movement. In his writings, Loos sought to establish a