Art, architecture and travel in France
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in France - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to France.
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Akris’ Albert Kriemler mines the work of architect Sou Fujimoto for S/S 2016
By JJ Martin Last updated
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Florentine menswear festival Pitti Uomo puts its most exuberant foot forward yet
By Dan Thawley Last updated
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Celtic legend meets Japanese Noh theatre in dance directed by Hiroshi Sugimoto
The artist and photographer joined forces with fashion designer Rick Owens, choreographer Alessio Silvestrin and electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda for his first production at the Paris Opera
By Minako Norimatsu Last updated
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Paris' third arrondissement gains a Japanese themed design space
By Henrietta Thompson Last updated
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Ahead of its first permanent home, Lafayette Anticipation presents a taster of things to come
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Maison de Verre: a dramatic glass house in France by Studio Odile Decq
Maison de Verre in Carantec is a glass box with a difference, housing a calming interior with a science fiction edge
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Jean-Philippe Delhomme’s new murals for Carlyle & Co are fairytales of New York
In his murals for Hong Kong’s soon-to-open members’ club Carlyle & Co, the French artist takes New York’s iconic Carlyle Hotel as his muse. We go behind the scenes in Delhomme’s Paris studio to watch the works unfold
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Sergei Shchukin’s modern masters reunite, for the first time outside of Russia
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Parallel universe: Laurent Grasso’s beguiling reinvention of a Corsican Beaux-Arts museum
By TF Chan Last updated
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Home is where the art is: in Private Choice, a Parisian apartment doubles as a contemporary gallery
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Disappearing act: artist JR makes IM Pei's Louvre pyramid vanish
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Le Corbusier's Claude & Duval factory, France
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Retail therapy: the Pompidou Centre’s design store gets a makeover
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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The wall-free architecture of Claude Parent
A new, carefully edited tome celebrates the life and contribution of the French architect, who passed away in 2016
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Vision of vignettes: Michael Anastassiades at Galerie Dansk Møbelkunst, Paris
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Loan ranger: Caen's public library by OMA to complete in 2017
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Galerie Patrick Seguin installs Jean Prouvé’s demountable house at Château La Coste
By Christopher Stocks Last updated
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Elizabeth de Portzamparc embeds a museum into the historic centre of Nîmes
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Remembering Pierre Soulages (1919-2022), a pioneer of post-war abstraction
Pierre Soulages, the pioneering French printmaker, sculptor and ‘painter of black’, has died aged 102
By Diane Theunissen Published
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Eye spy: graphic artist Vahram Muratyan lends his famous frames to Smythson
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Female intuition: Officine Générale debuts womenswear collection
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Fancy dressing: menswear label Helbers is a balance between rough and refined
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Jean-Phillipe Delhomme pulls off another sharp turn for Moncler’s A/W17 collection
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Life’s a beach: Lucien Pagès’ holiday takeover makes a splash at Colette
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Hit-maker Francesco Russo debuts made-to-order shoe service at Harvey Nichols
By Katrina Israel Last updated
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French fancy: Parisian label Ami launches womenswear
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Charles Zana creates unexpected dialogues with 17 paired works in Paris
In exhibition Utopia, Charles Zana turns Tornabuoni Art in Paris into a salon of intimate conversations between Italy’s greatest post-war artists and architects
By Benoit Loiseau Last updated