It’s a great honour to be writing my first editor’s letter. In its 21 years Wallpaper* has transformed how the world thinks about design, architecture and art, and for the last ten years I’ve been privileged to work with Tony Chambers – who is swivelling in a new chair as Brand & Content Director, taking Wallpaper* in bold new directions and generally plotting global domination.
I’d also like to say a huge thank-you to the editors, staff, contributors, collaborators past and present (far too many to mention) who have made Wallpaper* what it is today. Wallpaper* is more than a magazine, of course. It is an international community, a super-collider that brings together the most dynamic players in design, architecture, art, fashion, travel and beyond. What other magazine can count Dieter Rams, Karl Lagerfeld, Jil Sander, Giorgio Armani, Rick Owens and Tadao Ando among its loyal subscribers? We are united by a common mission to refine, to enhance, to elevate the best from the rest, to inspire and be inspired.
Jacket, £4,425, by Hermès.
Here, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a huge number of artists, designers and long-held heroes, spending time in some of the most exciting places in the world, and searching out the creative frontline. And we will continue to showcase groundbreaking, spirit-lifting and eye-opening design and to collaborate with established titans and emerging talents, wherever they are.
This issue celebrates celestial pendant lighting, nutty treats and high-functioning hotels. We shoot the Wallpaper* woman, art collection in tow, in a new Gianni Botsford house in London, talk to Alfredo Jaar about being ‘an architect who makes art’, celebrate ten years of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, take a tour of Vitsœ’s new HQ and witness the rebirth of a brutalist treasure in Mexico City and the launch of Marcio Kogan’s micro-town near Madrid. We also cook up a Swiss storm with Not Vital’s plain in pigna, the latest daring dish in our artist’s recipe series, showcase the most innovative new work spaces in our annual Officepaper* supplement, and take you to Berlin and São Paulo by way of Thailand, Big Sur and the Suffolk Riviera. In adulthood, Wallpaper* is better and brighter than ever. Now that’s cause for celebration!
Sarah Douglas, Editor
As originally featured in the November 2017 issue of Wallpaper* (W*224)
Hotel magnate Moisés Micha’s Mexico City pad is a brutalist affair, revamped with a verdant touch by local architect Alberto Kalach.
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners celebrates ten years together with a slew of new projects.
A visionary MD and loyal customers help build a new model HQ for furniture brand Vitsœ.
From a hip hub in Uppsala to a fab lab in Toronto, first-class new university buildings are a lesson in architecture.
Alfredo Jaar brings politics and human rights to the table at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
We throw the switch on our high-wire act thrillers.
As we relocate to a Gianni Botsford-designed London townhouse, it’s the resort wear we unpack first.
This season, accessories are taking a quilt trip.
We’re resurfacing with a sharp-edged selection of fabrics and wallpapers.
The shortlist for this year’s Best Urban Hotels, and the high and frequent flyers tasked with picking the winners.
We’re doing surprising things with our nuts.
We’ve dug deep to build the ultimate power base.
David King’s stockpile of Soviet design agitates again at Tate Modern.
Every other year since 2002, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative has brought together creative titans with early-career contenders. A year on from our profile on the seven lucky protégés in 2016, we discover how their lives have changed as a result.
INFORMATION
The November 2017 issue of Wallpaper* is out now. Subscribe here
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For her Calvin Klein debut, Veronica Leoni stripped it all backA sensual minimalism defined the Italian designer’s anticipated debut as creative director of Calvin Klein Collection, which marked the American powerhouse’s first runway show at New York Fashion Week since 2018
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Fiat’s pint-sized Panda is reinvented for the electric age, albeit as a compact crossoverThe new Fiat Grande Panda has arrived, one of a new wave of compact EVs due out in European markets throughout 2025
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Inside Joan Didion’s unseen diary of personal relationships and post-therapy notesA newly discovered diary by Joan Didion is soon to be published. Titled 'Notes to John', the journal documents her relationship with her daughter, husband, alcoholism, and depression
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East London's disused gasholders are being reinventedRegent's View by RSHP reinvents a pair of disused gasholders in east London as contemporary residential space and a publically accessible park
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Richard Rogers exhibition delves into the architect’s ideas at Chateau La CosteA new Richard Rogers exhibition created by Ab Rogers opens at the late architect’s final design, the Drawing Gallery at Chateau La Coste in France
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Step inside No. 33 Park Row’s Penthouse 3 by RSHP in New YorkWe offer a sneak peek inside Penthouse 3 at No. 33 Park Row by RSHP in New York
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RSHP: a new name for a new era of collaborative designRogers Stirk Harbour + Partners rebrands as RSHP, heralding a new era of collaborative design for the architecture practice, following Richard Roger's passing in 2021
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Airport jetty by RSHP provides a polychromatic welcome to SwitzerlandThe Aile Est, or East Wing, at Geneva Airport, a dramatic, polychromatic jetty, is the newest project by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in Switzerland
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Remembering Richard Rogers (1933 – 2021)We celebrate the life and career of Richard Rogers, one of the most influential architects of our era and winner of the 2007 Pritzker Prize, who passed away on 18 December 2021 at age 88
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No. 33 Park Row: RSHP's first New York residential project completesNo. 33 Park Row is Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' first foray into residential architecture in New York
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How Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners built The Macallan’s Speyside distilleryLook back at the journey behind the creation of the award-winning The Macallan Distillery in Scotland’s Speyside, by renowned architecture studio Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
