Latest articles by TF Chan
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Infinite design: Norbert Wangen’s newest kitchen model, ’Forever’
Compact, versatile and magnificently minimalist, Norbert Wangen's freestanding kitchens have led the field for two decades. His newest launch, which is part of his own line, takes these qualities to new heights. Christened 'Forever', the kitchen has a defiantly simple appearance. When not in use, it resembles a cuboid block, without a fixture in sight. Only when the kitchen top – a sleek, polished slab – is slid out do we see a sink and cooking range, both of which have been reduced to the simplest geometric forms. The sides come in a choice of two materials: jet black Corian or a square-patterned, reflective steel.
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In memoriam: Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019)
Carlos Cruz-Diez, the Venezuelan artist whose experiments with light and colour changed the face of kinetic art, died on Saturday in Paris. He was 95.
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Farshad Farzankia and Brdr Krüger reuse wood offcuts for ‘Phoenix’ sculpture
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At home with artist Gabriel Rico
Even in a period of social distancing, the art world continues to turn. In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. Reached during his temporary seclusion among the Mexican mountains, Gabriel Rico reveals how his poetic assemblages of found objects draw on culture, philosophy and the natural order of things
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Georg Jensen and Philips join forces on three-piece technology collection
Scandinavian aesthetics meet Dutch functionality in two portable speakers and a power bank, clad in mirror-polished stainless steel, Kvadrat fabric and brown leather
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Transatlantic exhibition series honours artists lost to HIV/AIDS
40 years since cases of HIV/AIDS were first identified, David Zwirner gallery in New York and London pays tribute to artists whose lives were cut short by the disease, and the community who endured ostracism and stigma
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Design luminaries discuss materials and circularity at London Design Festival 2020
Paola Antonelli, Neri Oxman, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen and Ivy Ross will share their insights into regenerative materials in an online panel discussion on Tuesday 15 September, moderated by Wallpaper* Editor-in-Chief Sarah Douglas. Tickets are free, pre-register below to secure your place.
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Portable handwashing station wins Life-Enhancer of the Year: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021
Responding swiftly to a public health emergency, Lagos designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello devised a portable, modular handwashing station that draws on local materials and manufacturing expertise
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Cai Guo-Qiang’s VR fireworks bring together advanced technology and traditional craft
Sleepwalking in the Forbidden City is the Chinese artist's first virtual reality work, created in collaboration with HTC Vive Arts, a colourful daytime fireworks performance with a surprising physical dimension
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Piet Oudolf creates limited-edition cover for Wallpaper’s August 2021 issue
Each month, Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover. For our August 2021 issue, landscape designer Piet Oudolf sketched a planting plan for Oudolf Garten, newly installed at Vitra HQ in Weil am Rhein, Germany
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1960s Hong Kong landmark re-opens as a hotel
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Video artists tap into the future with immersive installations in a brutalist London building
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Lyndon Neri on why ‘reflective nostalgia' is a guiding principle for Neri & Hu
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Virgil Abloh’s cover intervention sees Wallpaper’s September issue cut in half
Taking over the limited-edition subscribers’ cover of our September issue, the design polymath highlighted the magazine as an object, and personally cut and signed 184 copies – available for sale on canary---yellow.com – to benefit his “Post Modern” Scholarship Fund
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‘Mother!’: artists interpret the many facets of motherhood in Denmark show
Fertility, sacrifice and surveillance are just some themes examined in the group show ‘Mother!’, at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, coinciding with Mother’s Day 2021
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RE-OR’s interchangeable candles are colourful, modular and sculptural
Inspired by children's stacking toys, design duo BCXSY and creative director Tony Chambers have launched the RE-OR interchangeable candle, a playful, colourful and modular design that invites reconfiguration
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Theaster Gates: London, urban reform and exemplars of Black excellence
The American artist and urban planner returns to London for a cultural takeover on a grand scale, and – as one of five visionaries invited to nominate creative leaders of the future for ‘5x5’, Wallpaper’s 25th anniversary project – picks five exemplars of Black excellence leading the way for social and creative change
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Last chance to see: ‘Elmgreen & Dragset: The Nervous System’ at Pace New York
Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset caution against short-term memory in their first major show with Pace Gallery, calling our attention to crises beyond the pandemic
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Philippe Starck reinterprets Dior’s Louis XVI Medallion chair in Milan
Dior has commissioned Philippe Starck to put a contemporary twist on a classic piece of seating for Milan Design Week 2022, complete with an immersive installation at Palazzo Citterio
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Artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen on how VR can bring us closer to nature
Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen leverages virtual reality technologies to reorient our relationship with the natural world.
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Recycled glass tiles by Studio Plastique, Snøhetta and Fornace Brioni launch in Milan
The ‘Forite’ tile collection, which upcycles glass components from discarded fridges, ovens and microwaves, launches with an exhibition at Alcova during Milan Design Week 2022
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OMA’s Toranomon Hills Station Tower: a study of contemporary architectural collaboration
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Artist’s Palate: Cooking Sections’ ‘Back to Earth’ tomatoes on toast
Enjoy Cooking Sections’ tomatoes on toast (pictured with a Seaweed Seeper), which is served at The Magazine alongside chickpea tabbouleh, and rhurbarb and quinoa cake. As seen in this month’s Artist’s Palate feature, a Wallpaper* homage to our favourite contemporary art
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At home with artist Chiharu Shiota
In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. We catch up this week with Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota on creating art with her body, and the past lives of found objects
