Wallpaper* Design Awards
The Wallpaper* Design Awards is our annual celebration of the very best of the best. From the 9 January 2025, explore this year's winners and hear our editors discuss the selection process
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Formafantasma revisits the masculine codes of modernist design
Formafantasma wins a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025, for its Milan exhibition ‘La Casa Dentro’, which took to task the inherent masculinity and conservatism at the heart of modernism
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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Lesley Lokko reviews 2024's wins, shifts, tensions and opportunities for 2025
Lesley Lokko, the British-Ghanaian architect, educator, curator, and founder and director of the African Futures Institute (AFI), has been an inspirational presence in architecture in 2024; which makes her perfectly placed to discuss the year, marking the 2025 Wallpaper* Design Awards
By Lesley Lokko Published
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Is this the future of fine dining? Culinary creative studio We Are Ona offers food for thought
The Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 honour culinary creative studio We Are Ona, whose avant-garde pop-ups are turning the fine dining experience into an art form
By Mary Cleary Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Es Devlin reflects on the past and imagines the future
British artist and stage designer Es Devlin works across mediums, celebrating public participation in exhibitions, large-scale performances and immersive installations that frequently combine music, language and light. Interviewed by Hannah Silver
By Hannah Silver Published
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A next-generation Milanese members’ club wins Wallpaper* Design Award 2025
The Wilde wins our Best Social Hub award for its embodiment of the cosmopolitan Milanese spirit
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Tate Modern’s cultural shapeshifting takes the art prize
We sing the praises of Tate Modern for celebrating the artists that are drawn to other worlds
By Hannah Silver Published
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Jaguar’s big rethink earns its Type 00 concept car a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025
We salute the forward-thinking and bold choices of the dramatic Jaguar Type 00 Concept, a preview of next year's all-new electric GT
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: JB Blunk rings are sculptures for the hand
The JB Blunk Estate has partnered with J Hannah on the reproduction of four special rings
By Hannah Silver Published
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Sleep happily ever after on Carl Hansen & Søn’s reissue of a Kaare Klint bed
Carl Hansen & Søn’s ‘Spherical’ bed is a worthy Wallpaper* Design Award 2025 winner, celebrating both the past and the future in one fell swoop
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Loewe’s beaded vegetables are our best in show
At Loewe, Jonathan Anderson’s extraordinary caviar-beaded vegetables won ‘Best Produce’ as part of the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025
By Jack Moss Published
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Discover Interni Venosta, the new furniture label where craft and beauty speak for themselves
Interni Venosta, the new furniture label of Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran, is a perfectly pitched celebration of craft, quality and nostalgia- winning a Wallpaper* Design Award
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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London’s first all-suite hotel, The Emory, wins Wallpaper* Design Award 2025
The Emory earns our Best Suites award for flawlessly embodying the creative aesthetic of a host of world-class designers
By Lauren Ho Published
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Inside Stone Island’s extraordinary laboratory for innovation in Ravarino, Italy
As part of the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025, we pay homage to Stone Island’s enduring legacy of material innovation and rigorous experimentation with a visit to its cutting-edge Italian HQ
By Stuart Brumfitt Published
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Rotterdam’s urban rethink makes it the city of 2025
We travel to Rotterdam, honoured in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025, and look at the urban action the Dutch city is taking to future-proof its environment for people and nature
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Lisbon hotel Locke de Santa Joana wins Wallpaper* Design Award 2025
Born from the restoration of an old convent, Locke de Santa Joana receives our Best Opening award for its design inventiveness and sunny disposition
By Mary Lussiana Last updated
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: best watch reinterpretations
Watch brands including Casio, G-Shock and Audemars Piguet are going full circle – and we’re here for it
By Hannah Silver Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: celebrating architectural projects that restore, rebalance and renew
As we welcome 2025, the Wallpaper* Architecture Awards look back, and to the future, on how our attitudes change; and celebrate how nature, wellbeing and sustainability take centre stage
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: the best furniture and design objects for 2025
The Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 present the best new furniture and interior accessories, while global design director Hugo Macdonald and head of interiors Olly Mason reveal what makes a winner
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: meet the travel winners transcending destinations
Discover the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 travel winners: the year’s places to stay, dine, drink and join
By Lauren Ho Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: our fashion winners harness ‘the power of wow’
Our fashion award winners have all created collections that transcend the everyday, prizing experimentation, construction and high-minded design. Fashion features editor Jack Moss and fashion & creative director Jason Hughes take a closer look
By Jack Moss Published
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Wallpaper* 2025 Design Awards issue is on sale now – and full of star turns
Welcome to the Wallpaper* 2025 Design Awards issue; get your copy to discover the best in design, fashion, technology, architecture, interiors, travel and art
By Bill Prince Published
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Design Awards 2025: Alvar Aalto's Finlandia Hall is a modernist gem reborn through sustainability and accessibility
Helsinki's Finlandia Hall, an Alvar Aalto landmark design, has been reborn - highlighting sustainability and accessibility in a new chapter for the modernist classic
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Best Body Slammers: Japanese female wrestling meets design
The Sukeban female wrestling league made its Miami debut in December, with a championship belt by Marc Newson, hats by Stephen Jones, creative direction by Olympia Le Tan – and a win in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2024
By Maria Sobrino Last updated
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Earth Rated’s sustainable dog toys are our Best Tail Waggers
These dog toys by Earth Rated and design studio Layer are winners in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2024
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Bauhaus shapes and bold materials: best scene setters in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2024
These bold and beautiful interior shapes are the best scene setters in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2024
By Tianna Williams Published
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The Chanel 31 Le Rouge lipstick receives the Wallpaper* kiss of approval
The Chanel 31 Le Rouge lipstick wins a 2024 Wallpaper* Design Award for best lip service
By Hannah Tindle Published
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Faye Toogood’s stone furniture is the Best Divine Intervention
Wallpaper* Design Awards 2024: Faye Toogood’s stone furniture for ‘Mirror Mirror’ at Chatsworth House
By Rosa Bertoli Published