All content Archive | May 2016

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May 31st
- Cabin crew: Hermès’ bespoke service offers the ultimate aeronautical upgrade
- Best of the rest: starchitects pull in the crowds at Venice Architecture Biennale
- Norman Kelley designs Aesop Chicago using reclaimed bricks
- True colours: artist Daniel Buren’s kaleidoscopic takeover at Paris’ Le Bristol hotel
- ’Origins’: Ingrid Donat takes over Carpenters Workshop Gallery London
- Picture postcard: Gabriel Orozco’s new works at White Cube Hong Kong
- Fancy footwork: Sanayi 313’s artisanal spin on traditional Turkish slippers
- Hothouse greens: designer Boe Holder’s mini plants are one hot item
- César’s palace: restoring Luis Barragán’s Casa Prieto-Lopez
- Musical chairs: Daniel Libeskind unveils new installation in Frankfurt
- Order and chaos: Dóra Maurer’s graphic multimedia works at White Cube
- Lifestyle lab: Nendo overhauls Siam Discovery department store in Bangkok
- Espousing Oddity: piloting Buckminster Fuller’s futuristic Dymaxion car
May 27th
- Zoku — Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Heavy metal: Richard Serra’s weighty installations at Gagosian Gallery, NY
- Tom Blachford brings Palm Springs houses and classic cars into moonlit focus
- London home: Moooi opens new store in the heart of the capital
- Disappearing act: artist JR makes IM Pei's Louvre pyramid vanish
- Zuma Rome — Rome, Italy
- Mid-market masterpiece: BMW reveal the M2 Coupé
- Cebu’s new Bus Rapid Transit line celebrates its first stations by CAZA
- ’Heliotropia’: Byredo debuts a new perfume inspired by Liberty London
- Car culture: New York’s Leila Heller assembles ‘Shrines to Speed’
- New York townhouse: The Row opens its latest flagship in Manhattan
- Botanical boutique: Naturopathica’s herbal remedies arrive in Chelsea
May 26th
- Nix — New York, USA
- Schwartz and Architecture’s space-saving reimagining of a Victorian Bungalow
- Skin and ritual: Aesop’s mesmerising Melbourne windows
- Collected Coffee: a passport to the world’s best brew
- All change: Daniel Buren makes a connection at Tottenham Court Road
- Best in show: Furniture Makers’ Company reveals Design Guild Mark awards 2016
- Experimental outreach: all the highlights from Clerkenwell Design Week 2016
- Istanbul gallery Dirimart inaugurates new space designed by Studio MDA
May 25th
- 21st century boy: Renaud Vuaillat’s new gallery debuts with Emmanuel Babled
- Being John Malkovich: Sandro Miller’s portmanteau star portraits in New York
- Creative collaboration: a sculptor's house echoes the Canadian woods around it
- Leading light: Foster + Partners’ Industrial Design shines bright
- Penthouse living: a New York residential gem by Thomas Juul-Hansen
- Eternal love for the pumpkin: Yayoi Kusama takes over Victoria Miro, London
- Ana Arana's tiny kitchen wins over ICFF
- Clean Beauty Co: the new beauty brand that’s cleaning up
- Paco’s Tacos — Melbourne, Australia
- WindArt project: Joana Vasconcelos and Vhils apply themselves to the elements
- An exhibit for Italian car lovers at Nashville’s Frist Center
- The big picture: London hosts its largest ever photography fair
May 24th
- Digital futures: Sam Jacob Studio creates an installation based on the humble shed
- Hermès world: a refurbished Singapore flagship stocks scarves to stationery
- Home from home: James Rosenquist at the Judd Foundation
- Hagia Sophia Mansions — Istanbul, Turkey
- Abstract space: BD Barcelona opens first UK space at Clerkenwell Design Week
- Netzwerkarchitekten and Heike Klussmann reimagine the art of travel
- Primeira pedra: Venice show explores the virtues of natural stone
- Body image: Robert Mapplethorpe's sensual take on the human form in LA
- Empire rising: Mast Brothers opens a mammoth factory/boutique in LA
- Playing house: artist Ian Strange creates an eerie portrait of American suburbia
- Grand statements: Ai Weiwei unveils new works at Athens’ Cycladic Art Museum
May 23rd
- Cover to cover: Papier launches range of personalised notebooks
- New era: Apple unveils futuristic new store in San Francisco’s Union Square
- Phénix Eatery & Bar — Shanghai, China
- Made pure: the Campana Brothers and Stephan Hamel create Fontana Etruria
- Pole position: Lausanne prepares for Pôle Muséal, a major new cultural hub
- Station masters: pulling into New York, London and Budapest’s hottest hubs
- Palazzo Dama — Rome, Italy
- Park life: a new tome explores the grounds of Philip Johnson’s Glass House
- Final frontier: Andrew Zuckerman wraps up at Chamber with 'Progressland'
- Smoke & Salt: Islington’s newest culinary hot spot
- Hat trick: we lift the lid on Nick Fouquet, LA’s milliner to the stars
- Interchange: Barr Gazetas and Tom Dixon create Camden co-working space
- In the studio with Stanley Whitney
- Pastel prisms: Dawn Ng’s free-ranging installation at Hermès’ Aloft space
May 20th
- Museo Salvatore Ferragamo lays bare the house’s artistic inspirations
- Okra — Hong Kong, China
- Ox — Helsinki, Finland
- A day in the Leaf: we spend some time with Nissan’s newest electric car
- The best online flower delivery services for design lovers
- Fin-land: Haruka Misawa’s alluring aquariums
- Just like Buddy Holly: DSAI design a Texas music centre that’s good at everything
- Viennese heritage brand Ludwig Reiter is safeguarding the traditional welted shoe for generations to come
- Moving day: RSHP relocates to the Leadenhall Building
- Full tilt: Bernard Frize’s contemporary drip paintings at Galerie Perrotin
- Clay collective: Arita House opens in Amsterdam, displaying perfect porcelain
- Johnston Sans: TfL toasts 100 years of signage during Clerkenwell Design Week
- New space: Tess Jaray's colourful works at the relaunched Megan Piper in London
May 19th
- Turkish delight: meet Sinan, the ‘first starchitect’
- Hold the phone: start-up tech firm Insensi reinvents the landline
- Happolati — Oslo, Norway
- Through the grapevine: Lee Ufan at Château La Coste's new vineyard gallery
- Bold as brass: Neri & Hu design an impactful Sulwhasoo flagship
- Knock on wood: Snøhetta-designed Aesop ION store opens in Singapore
- Moroccan jewel: Studio KO reveals design for new Yves Saint Laurent museum
- Hawaiian tropic: construction at Ward Village gathers pace in Honolulu
- The latest score: Populous designs a new stadium for Olympique Lyonnais
- Urban house: Two architects make the most of this Auckland home’s industrial feel
- Perfect foil: artist Suzanne Tick’s new work is a tightly-woven wonder
- Balancing act: Case-Real convert Japanese storehouse into modern work space
- Gold on 27 — Dubai, UAE
- Dark arts: an Austrian jeweller’s alchemical approach
- Urban Cowboy Bed and Breakfast — Nashville, USA
- A strong case: travel in style with new carry-on luggage from Arlo Skye
May 18th
- Fair game: Wallpaper* rounds up the hits from NYCxDesign 2016
- Bright star: Lobmeyr celebrates the 50th birthday of its Met Opera chandeliers
- ’Pittura Analitica: 1970s’: the rebellious Italian art movement comes to London
- Mixing it up: O CÉU is a new Eurocentric modern furniture brand
- Parisian pedigree: L’Artisan Parfumeur relaunches its classic French fragrance line
- Mandarin Oriental Speciality Suites — Milan, Italy
- The drawn word: SFMoMA tracks the modern evolution of typography
- Home sweet home: six architects rethink traditional housing typologies at RIBA
- 'Between Life and Death' – a Vollebak film
- Robotics and nature entwine in the V&A’s beetle-inspired pavilion
- This American life: Lisson Gallery opens a spacious new outpost in New York
- Art house: Laurence Kavanagh’s filmic works channel Mayfair’s Curzon cinema
May 17th
- Ori Gersht reflects on Kyoto’s Zen gardens and their secret floating worlds
- Beached: Massimo Vitali's imposing sandscapes at Ronchini Gallery
- Casa Marques — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Shaken and stirred: Studio Caramel brings back the bar cart in Beirut
- Round two: Marta Sala presents second Editions furniture collection in New York
- Paley — Los Angeles, USA
- Bold and bright: Masquespacio revamp studio with Memphis twist
- Touch wood: Katie Paterson and Zeller & Moye unveil Hollow installation in Bristol
- Neighbourhood watch: Eamonn Doyle hones in on Dublin’s streets
- Picture perfect: Metro Pictures reveals new space with Cindy Sherman show
- One shot: there’s more than nostalgia to the I-1, a new digital-age Polaroid
May 16th
- Making shapes: designer Christopher Stuart celebrates distortion in NY
- Welcome wagon: a slew of new design showrooms open in New York City
- Nomaa Hotel — Curitiba, Brazil
- Out of Africa: Francis Kéré’s community architecture arrives in Philadelphia
- Back to the future: Helsinki City Museum’s impressive new home
- Shanghai Auto Show 2013: the top 10 cars
- Land of light: Gold-Smidt Assembly explores applications of silver in Soho
- Dissecting fashion history: ’Anatomy of a Collection’ at Musée Galliera
- Hops rises: the ascendance of the brewery chef
- What matters now: Matter reveals new products by a host of rising design stars
- Naïve — Kiev, Ukraine
May 13th
- Super size: the Mercedes S-Class Cabriolet is a drop-top with grandeur
- Sitting pretty: a show of Pierre Paulin's chairs goes on display at Centre Pompidou
- David Collins Studio designs 44th Kips Bay Decorator Show House
- Stroke of genius: Japanese brand Shaquda’s range of brushes
- Made to order: OTHR, a new design brand championing 3D printed wares
- Room Mate Giulia — Milan, Italy
- Eastern promise: the Wallpaper* picks from Fashion Week Tbilisi
- ChimChim: Cotto introduces a range of ornamental scent diffusers
- 'Here Elsewhere': Robert Wilson puts a surreal spin on Hermès' home collections
- Hotel Saint-Marc — Paris, France
- Seeking utopia: a show at the DAM explores the future of living
- Pop art: Tatabi Studio makes microwavable popcorn pretty
- Bugatti Home Collection rolls out at Salone
- Renaissance man: Jan Fabre’s sculptural dialogue with Florence
- Galerie Patrick Seguin explores Maison du Brésil and Chandigarh in new dual shows
- Breath of fresh air: Dyson debuts new hairdryer, entitled Supersonic
May 12th
- Miami vice: Maison & Objet Americas returns to Miami Beach for a second year
- Amanemu — Shima, Japan
- Mathieu Lehanneur’s liquid marble installation makes a splash in France
- Louis Kahn’s renovated Yale Center for British Art unveiled
- Observatory of Light: Daniel Buren at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
- ’Bloom at Night’: Shona Heath casts her spell on Alexander McQueen
- Artist’s Palate: recipes by your favourite artists and designers
- Future-facing: a new monograph explores 40 years of Wilmotte & Associates
- 'Sculpture in the Garden': Pangolin London shows works in King's Cross
- Magic mountains: Ugo Rondinone's modern totems liven up the Nevada desert
- Concrete curves: we take in the charms of an under-construction museum in Spain
- London calling: Michael Kors weighs in on his supersized Regent Street flagship
- Artist’s Palate: Polly Morgan’s chicken livers with pear
- Meet and seat: pulling up a chair with mid-century modern master Jens Risom
- Frutt Family Lodge — Melchsee-Frutt, Switzerland
- Porsche Design shapes Alpha Piano’s mPiano
May 11th
- Scents and the city: Handsome London’s capital new fragrances
- Life's work: Wallace Berman's controversial oeuvre at LA's Kohn Gallery
- Textiles, trinkets and taxidermy: Anabela Chan’s designs at Les Ateliers Courbet
- Weird & wonderful: the Dirty Art Department's experimental school
- Hotel Panache, Paris, France
- Double vision: a Miami home blurs the boundaries between urban and wild living
- Pure imagination: Fornasetti celebrates its seminal dinner plates with new book
- Gathering pace: the 2016 London Festival of Architecture reveals its programme
- Body building: Antony Gormley's early works get a showing in New York
May 10th
- Our house: 2016's British Pavilion curators take us on a tour of the modern home
- Toad in the hole: Toiletpaper launches vibrant limited edition monograph
- Extraordinary everyday: James Ireland’s sculptures at Zabludowicz Collection
- ’Furnishing Utopia’: the enduring influence of the Shakers on modern design
- Noodle Diner — Beijing, China
- Wild side: A Nova Scotian retreat is geared to its dramatic setting
- Rafael de Cárdenas brings a touch of retail theatre to St Petersburg’s Au Pont Rouge
- Lease of life: a hidden gem of Brazilian modernism reopens as an art gallery
- Let the battle commence: 2016 RIBA International Prize shortlist revealed
- Heading south: Espasso opens a new showroom in Miami Ironside
- Roast on the coast: how brewers are bringing craft coffee to Dubai
- Winning season: the Aga Khan Award for Architecture releases 2016 shortlist
- New creative cultures: in conversation with Dubai’s acclaimed female designers
May 9th
- New heights: a cable car line proposal to offer new perspective to Chicago visitors
- Jurassic art: Huang Yong Ping’s ’Empires’ fills the nave of Paris’ Grand Palais
- Arcade games: Antonini Darmon unveil latest housing development in Paris
- Love note: ahead of her sabbatical, Tracey Emin presents ’Stone Love’ in NYC
- Good & Proper Tea: London brew champions open Leather Lane tea bar
- Colouring outside the lines: Normann Copenhagen launches stationery line
- Fresh platforms: Chart Art Fair reveals new Design section for 2016
- In the lab: Wallpaper* meets the design research duo behind Oeuffice
- House rules: Janson Goldstein creates a serene guest house in the Hudson Valley
- Maier's 'maison': Bottega Veneta's Beverly Hills hub gets a Mediterranean makeover
- Le Bistro de l’Arc — Paris, France
- Tool of the trade: Mario Botta creates a limited edition Fixpencil for Caran d’Ache
- Here’s looking at you: the return of the Evil Eye
- Eugène-Eugène — Paris, France
May 6th
- Celebrating the old: La Boverie breathes new life to Liège’s Fine Arts Museum
- Art of war: John Pawson makes a wartime base a home for The Feuerle Collection
- Island escape: W*’s handpicked highlights from Frieze New York 2016
- André — Valence, France
- Break the mold: Adam Silverman debuts new ceramic works at Friedman Benda
- Pretty in pink: Aquazzura opens a well-heeled boutique in New York
- Paradise found: Artsy and Misha Kahn turn Sixty LES bar into living art
- True trailblazer: Turin's Pinacoteca pays homage to the era and aura of Gae Aulenti
- Prescient picks: Wallpaper* scours work old and new at Pick Me Up 2016
- Le Thiou — Paris, France
- ’Lignes d’Ombres’: Mobilab’s latest showcase is a creative meeting of minds
- Empty chairs: Andy Warhol’s interest in mass media resurges with new meaning
- In bloom: Beatriz Milhazes’ floral mobiles pitch up at the Jewish Museum, NY
- Building blocks: architecture studio Planbureau launches new concrete puzzle
- Madison moves: Moynat adds NYC to its portfolio of international storefronts
May 5th
- Relocation relocation: Artek settles into a new Helsinki home
- NY’s Jewish Museum spotlights the creative legacy of Roberto Burle Marx
- 443 Greenwich: a book bindery in New York’s Tribeca is transformed into residences
- Maison Libanaise — Hong Kong, China
- Jimmyjane's Sensual Care line gives garish lube the slip
- Masters old and new: Hannah Martin unveils a modern classic in New York
- Storefront for Art and Architecture honours photographer Ezra Stoller
- Thomas’s Café — London, UK
- ’Behind Closed Doors’: Esther Stewart’s strict forms at Sarah Cottier Gallery
- Collective concepts: the W* picks from Collective Design Fair 2016
- It’s love at second sight: when Picky Nicky, just occasionally, miscalls it first time
May 4th
- Retrospective explores Jonathan Tuckey’s sensitive touch
- AR Architects renovate a unit in Sao Paulo’s iconic Lausanne apartment block
- One to watch: London label Neoss mixes nostalgia and neoprene
- UCL’s Sainsbury Wellcome Centre is a translucent experimental laboratory
- Clear winner: an Australian beach house is a translucent triumph
- Fizzical force: Feudi di San Gregorio’s new Dubl bubble
- The big reveal: RIBA London announces the winners of its 2016 Regional Awards
- A poetic pause: Aldo Bakker presents a solo show at CID Grand-Hornu
- 'The Yosemite Suite': Pace Gallery exhibits David Hockney's bucolic iPad drawings
- Meet the makers: follow our trail at London Craft Week
- The cutting edge: Collective Design Fair champions independent design talent
- See the wood for the trees: Robin Wood and Barn the Spoon do dinner at Craft
- Belon — Hong Kong, China
May 3rd
- Creative enterprise: Rogan Gregory's sculptural art steps up at R & Company
- Michael Sailstorfer’s Silver Cloud crashes Berlin Gallery Weekend
- Walk the line: Nendo unveils new designs at Collective Design Fair
- #1 crush: Samuel Amoia presents a limited-edition collection for DeLorenzo Gallery
- Molten forces: Harry Allen and Esque combine glass and metal to novel effect
- George Kravis’ epic design collection finds a home at the Cooper Hewitt, New York
- ’Muguet Porcelaine’: Jean-Claude Ellena’s sparkling swansong for Hermès
- Desert bloom: Chilean architects throw Corten to the wind in the arid Atacama
- Design finalists unveil their concepts for the reinvented Pershing Square, LA
- Shan Café — Beijing, China
- Modern marvel: Living Architecture adds Pawson-designed Welsh retreat to roster
- 21c Museum Hotel — Lexington, USA
- ‘Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra’: Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Gallery Fumi
- ’Collection 1’: the sunglasses throwing shade at the mass-market
- The return of the POP Swatch watch
- ’Manus x Machina': The Met puts couture's métiers in an OMA-designed spotlight
- Sparks fly: Maestro Dobel Tequila's smoked ‘Humito’ ignites the palate