TF Chan
TF Chan is a former editor of Wallpaper* (2020-23), where he was responsible for the monthly print magazine, planning, commissioning, editing and writing long-lead content across all pillars. He also played a leading role in multi-channel editorial franchises, such as Wallpaper’s annual Design Awards, Guest Editor takeovers and Next Generation series. He aims to create world-class, visually-driven content while championing diversity, international representation and social impact. TF joined Wallpaper* as an intern in January 2013, and served as its commissioning editor from 2017-20, winning a 30 under 30 New Talent Award from the Professional Publishers’ Association. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he holds an undergraduate degree in history from Princeton University.
Latest articles by TF Chan
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Laid bare: Elmgreen & Dragset create subversive massage parlour in Paris
In Paris, Perrotin’s Matignon gallery is transformed into an uncanny massage parlour in the hands of artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park celebrates ‘Summer of Love’
Expanding on its ongoing Robert Indiana exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents its ‘Summer of Love’ events and projects series, featuring contemporary LGBTQIA+ artists and celebrating human relationships, understanding and love
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Formafantasma on their GEO-Design master’s programme, and designers thinking big
The Italian design duo – and Designer of the Year in the 2021 Wallpaper* Design Awards – are among our featured visionaries in ‘5x5’, Wallpaper's 25th anniversary project. They discuss their first year heading the GEO-Design master’s programme at Design Academy Eindhoven, educating students for a changing world, and their pick of five creative leaders of the future who are expanding the practice of design
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The domestic dreamscapes of Pipilotti Rist
For her first major solo exhibition in Scandinavia, the Swiss artist transforms Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art with immersive installations, textile works, and radiant video projections designed as a homelike environment
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Doug Aitken judges Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022
American artist and Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022 judge Doug Aitken discusses art that fuses humanity to nature, and how architecture and design ‘should be about the entire narrative, rather than the endpoint’
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Donum Estate’s wine-tasting pavilion by Studio Other Spaces celebrates its land
The latest addition to California wine and art destination Donum Estate – the Vertical Panorama Pavilion by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann’s Studio Other Spaces – celebrates the soil, landscape and weather that make wine possible
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Designers auction works to aid humanitarian relief in Ukraine
Germans Ermičs, Sabine Marcelis, Karl Monies and Tableau are among designers in Europe who are auctioning furniture and collectible objects and donating proceeds to support humanitarian relief in Ukraine
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Artist's Palate: Cao Fei’s recipe for Singapore laksa
‘It’s sweet, salty, spicy, fishy and fresh,’ says artist Cao Fei of her recipe for Singapore laksa. 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 Russell Tovey
Celebrated actor, art advocate and podcaster, Russell Tovey talks to Wallpaper* about emerging artists, queer art, his hopes for the Talk Art franchise, and his ongoing collaborations with artist Navot Miller
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Adam Nathaniel Furman on how queer spaces have shaken up the architectural canon
The architect, designer and artist offers a first look at their new London studio, and discusses their recent book, Queer Spaces, an accessible compendium of meaningful environments for the LGBTQ community. This article will feature in the August 2022, Design for a Better World issue of Wallpaper*
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Jeppe Hein’s carte blanche for Ruinart invites mindful participation
Danish artist Jeppe Hein’s carte blanche project for champagne house Ruinart invites visitors to embrace the moment through words and drawings
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Last chance to see: Elmgreen & Dragset ‘Useless Bodies?’ at Fondazione Prada
Elmgreen & Dragset’s new show at Milan’s Fondazione Prada is an uncanny exploration of our dematerialising bodies and increasingly discomforting homes
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Raf Simons and Kvadrat launch a Shaker-inspired accessories collection
Launching on 10 August 2022, the new accessories collection by Raf Simons for Kvadrat includes cushions, throws, bags, as well as tray, box, magazine holder, cap, and two key chains whose design is driven by functionality
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Men’s mental health takes centre stage at an art and design exhibition by Tableau
‘Confessions’, which travels to Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design following its debut at Milan Design Week 2022, features commissioned work by 14 male artists, designers and architects, reflecting on toxic masculinity, vulnerability and mental health
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White Cube at Arley Hall: contemporary sculpture meets the English country house garden
White Cube’s first outdoor sculpture exhibition puts the work of 12 modern and contemporary artists, including Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley and Danh Vo, on view in the grounds of Cheshire’s Arley Hall
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Artist’s Palate: Dolce & Gabbana’s pasta alla Norma
‘We like the simplest recipes of the Sicilian tradition,’ say designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of their choice of pasta alla Norma for this month’s Artist’s Palate. Here, the recipe to make the definitively Italian dish yourself
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René and Nadine Redzepi on judging the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018
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Tom Dixon on design’s transformative power at Brainstorm Design 2018
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MiN New York prove that a 'multi-sensory scent' is not oxymoronic
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Box fresh: Suha Traboulsi and Walid Raad’s elegy to stolen art at Aïshti
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Artist’s Palate: Manolo Blahnik’s bread and butter pudding
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Artist’s Palate: Langlands & Bell’s braised gurnard with patacones
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Marina Abramović’s recipe for diet soup
where we interpret recipes in homage to our favourite contemporary art
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Vintage reflections: Richard Yasmine’s minimalist mirrors are infused with nostalgia
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