Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli is one of the world's foremost design
experts and was recently rated as one of the top one hundred
most powerful people in the world of art by Art Review. She
is a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design
at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where she
curated the exhibition "Humble Masterpieces" to great
acclaim. Italian, and an architect by training, Antonelli
has also curated architecture and design exhibitions in
Italy, France, and Japan. She has been a contributing editor
for Domus magazine and the design editor for Abitare. A
lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, she is
also the author of MoMA's Objects of Design and Safe: Design
Takes on Risk. She lives in New York City with her husband.