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Through the lens of photographer Joanna Wzorek
‘Through the lens’ is our monthly series that throws the spotlight on photographers who are Wallpaper* contributors. Here, we explore the vision of London-based Joanna Wzorek
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Low-tech to high art: Isabel + Helen ‘In Orbit’ at Saatchi Gallery
Down-to-earth creators with unearthly ideas: London-based creative duo Isabel + Helen present a new series of hypnotic paintings created using hand-assembled contraptions
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Amanda Levete
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week, it’s London-based architect Amanda Levete, who founded her award winning practice AL_A in 2009 with co-directors Ho-Yin Ng, Alice Dietsch and Maximiliano Arrocet.
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Laurent Grasso confronts our post-Anthropocene world on film in Shanghai
The French artist’s, Artificialis, recently dominated the nave of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Now, as the Centre Pompidou takes the project to Shanghai's West Bund Museum, we revisit our interview with the artist from December 2020
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Anri Sala's subterranean installation is out of this world
Albanian artist Anri Sala's hypnotic film and sound installation, Time No Longer, in Houston's Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, pays homage to African American astronaut and saxophonist Ronald McNair
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Boy Smells on queer history, The Trevor Project, and celebrating Pride at home
Candle brand Boy Smells' co-founder Matthew Herman and artist Richie Shazam discuss their mutli-platform celebration of Pride
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Barozzi Veiga create contrasting monochrome apartments
Barcelona-based architecture duo Barozzi Veiga have created a dark and moody, and a light and bright design, respectively, for their own homes
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Kjetil Trædal Thorsen
Snøhetta founding partner Kjetil Trædal Thorsen discusses collective creativity, the art of prepositions, and the psychology of architecture with Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafe
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Photographers on the defining events of our time
‘The Horizon is Moving Nearer’, at the Portuguese Centre of Photography, uses different forms of media to evalute key issues of the age
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Curator Aindrea Emelife’s ‘Bold Black British’ takeover of Christie’s
At Christie’s London, ‘Bold Black British’ (1 – 21 October) is a meeting point of artists working across disciplines and generations. We speak to curator Aindrea Emelife about spotlighting the Black Britons shaping the creative landscape
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Emily Mullin on creating ceramic sculptures with her husband
Teaming up with her husband for a new show ‘Get a Room’, ceramic artist and sculptor Emily Mullin celebrates collage, collaboration and the beauty of imperfection
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David Carson’s experimental typographic collage for The Macallan whisky
American graphic designer, art director and surfer David Carson unveils striking hand-crafted collage design for The Macallan Concept No. 3 whisky
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The Brant Foundation tells a fairytale of New York
‘Third Dimension’ at The Brant Foundation’s East Village location reads like a love letter to the contemporary art of New York City– which recently won the Wallpaper* Design Award for Best City 2020
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Babak Ganjei: ‘If Instagram went down I don’t know if I’d exist’
Babak Ganjei’s text-based artwork, currently showcased at Browns East in London, combines sharp observational comedy with endearing honesty
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How Joël Andrianomearisoa is putting Madagascar on the contemporary art map
Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa is the creative mind behind Hakanto Contemporary, a new multifunctional arts centre in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo. A new group show of 26 artists showcases the breadth and scope of work being made in and around the city
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Through the lens of Wallpaper* contributor Gabby Laurent
‘Through the lens’ is our monthly series that throws the spotlight on photographers who are Wallpaper* contributors. Here we explore Gabby Laurent's vision further
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Chiharu Shiota’s ‘labyrinth within a labyrinth’ at Copenhagen’s Cisternerne
Chiharu Shiota has become the latest artist to take over the arched depths of Copenhagen’s Cisternerne. Titled Multiple Realities, her installation is a poetic landscape of web-like yarn, both serene and unsettling
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Xiaopeng Yuan: ‘Hiding behind a camera is like hiding inside a stage curtain’
‘Through the lens’ is our monthly series that throws the spotlight on photographers who are Wallpaper* contributors. Here, Xiaopeng Yuan talks about his vision, process, and shoots that make his heart beat faster
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Retail maverick Andrea Brugnoni on what’s next for his Sardinian cultural district
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Nike GO FlyEase breaks free from convention
We go toe-to-toe with Nike's Kathy Gomez in an interview that discusses the new GO FlyEase technology
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Formafantasma on GEO-Design and design education
Design Emergency began as an Instagram Live series during the Covid-19 pandemic and is now becoming a wake-up call to the world, and compelling evidence of the power of design to effect radical and far-reaching change. Co-founders Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn took over the October 2020 issue of Wallpaper* – available to download free here – to present stories of design’s new purpose and promise. Here, Paola Antonelli talks to designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Studio Formafantasma
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Yves Béhar and Dr Harvey Karp are rocking World Sleep Day
Created by paediatrician Dr Harvey Karp, and given a pared-back design by Yves Béhar, Snoo is a baby sleep solution we can all rest easy with
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What lies on the road ahead for Daimler and autonomous driving
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Polly Morgan dissects social media through snake skins and acrylic nails
At The Bomb Factory, the British taxidermy artist is dismembering the ‘veneer’ of social media and the suffocation of lockdown in a new series of photographs and intricate snake sculptures
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Forging ahead: Thomas Heatherwick updates us on the Garden Bridge
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GDSNY's The Emerson is a love letter to New York
We speak to architect and developer Michael Kirchmann of GDSNY about his work, approach and latest completion, The Emerson at 500 W25th Street, a boutique residential building on the Highline in New York
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Byredo and filmmaker Fenn O’Meally on identity and mixed emotions
Byredo founder Ben Gorham on new fragrance launch, Mixed Emotions, and his collaboration with filmmaker Fenn O’Meally
