In the summer of 2014 I visited New York City for the first time. Back then, I couldn’t imagine that my trip would have been the first step in realizing my biggest dream: to live and work in the Big Apple. During that holiday I went to the Museum of Modern Art and I visited the “Architecture & Design” section: design was put at the same level as art, which was a revealing moment for me.

MoMA was the first museum, back in 1932, to include design objects among its collection, showing great foresight. Peter Blake, Architecture & Design’s curator in the 50s, stated that “everyday objects are an integral part of the art of our time” and therefore worthy of being exhibited in a museum. Today it’s a well established idea, but it was rather revolutionary for the time.