The Wallpaper* guide to our home town of London is authored by our art, culture and luxury editor, Hannah Silver, who is at home in Mayfair’s old school opulence as she is in the grungy art scene out east.
The aim of the Wallpaper* Travel Guides isn’t to cater to everyone. Instead, we home in on what makes a place truly special to us, from a design-led aesthetic to exceptional service and reassuring quality.
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Out of office: What the Wallpaper* editors are looking forward to in MayOur editors highlight what’s new, noteworthy and not-to-be-missed in design, culture and beyond this month
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London Festival of Architecture 2026: everything you need to knowThe UK’s biggest architecture festival is almost upon us, launching in June across the capital; here is our guide for everything you need to know, where to look, what to book, and where to go
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Cece’s opens in Notting Hill with a cinematic take on Italian diningPublic House’s most theatrical London restaurant yet pairs a transportive dining room with delightful Italian cooking
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Artists’ skewing of the financial crisis takes a satirical turn at London’s ICAA new group exhibition, ‘Genuine Fake Premium Economy’, considers the implications of the 2008 financial crisis
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This new London café traces the tension and harmony between Iranian and Iraqi cookingFounders Ziad Halub and Farsin Rabiee discuss memory, seasonality, and heritage at Logma, their popular Iranian-Iraqi concept in Hackney
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London art exhibitions to see in MayRead our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from Photo London's new location to Nengi Omuku at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
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London music photographers Eddie Otchere and Normski were early documenters of UK hip hop. Here’s the story behind the imagesThey captured a rare, raucous chronicle of hip-hop’s golden age and the UK underground at its inception. Now, for the first time together, and as they both have work on show at the V&A East, they share their stories
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This robot is making On’s spray-on marathon sneaker, its fastest-ever distance shoeAhead of the London Marathon this Sunday (26 April 2026), Swiss sportswear brand On’s pioneering LightSpray robot arrives in the British capital for the first time. Scott Maguire, On’s president and COO, gives Wallpaper* a tour
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The best Chinese restaurants in LondonDiscover our food critic’s picks of the best Chinese restaurants in London; those serving up a wealth of regional wonders in the chicest of surroundings
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The Dream Of is the east London space offering alternative healing therapies to the city’s creativesWith clients that include Isamaya Ffrench and Yasmin Sewell, The Dream Of is proving to be beauty experts’ choice for everything from Reiki to cacao ceremonies. We paid a visit to try a treatment
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A new London mews house conjures up a spacious interior from a tiny plotPaper House Project’s Greenview House in Hackney transforms an unpromising site into a neatly defined, low-energy home with a dynamic, interlocking vertical plan
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Phoebe Boswell’s ‘Art on the Underground’ dives into why the majority of Black British adults don’t swimAt London’s Notting Hill Gate and Bethnal Green Underground stations, Phoebe Boswell explores a complex relationship with water
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Explore 50 of London's brutalist landmarks with this handy new guidebookIn the pages of 'Brutalist London', London’s most memorable concrete buildings are laid bare
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This remodelled London terrace house fuses moody interiors with Japanese simplicityHeion House by Studio Hagen Hall is a London terrace house reimagined through warm woods and contemporary minimalism
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This modern Egyptian restaurant is London’s fieriest opening of the yearChef Meedu Saad goes solo with Impala, a charcoal grill restaurant and love letter to North African flavours that has already conquered Soho
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For its inaugural exhibition, the V&A East traces 125 years of Black British music‘The Music is Black’ at V&A East Museum, opening on 18 April, is an intimate exploration into Black British music culture
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A new book marks 75 years of the Royal Festival Hall, London's iconic ‘egg in a box’‘Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon’ tells the story of one of London's best-loved buildings – designed not for the privileged few, but for everyone
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Step inside V&A East Museum, a new London cultural hub combining brains and beautyDesigned by O'Donnell+Tuomey in Stratford, the V&A East Museum is ready to show off its sculptural volumes as it gears up for its public opening on 18 April 2026
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The Wallpaper* Travel Guides return with four new editionsThe essential companion for today’s design lover
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Meet the visionary young architect who's reshaping London, one project at a timeEast London-born architect Jayden Ali and his multidisciplinary practice JA Projects draw on social justice, community and connection, shaping the architectural avant-garde in the British capital and beyond
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Anna Park's new show at Lehmann Maupin in London offers a voyeuristic mix of the abstract and the figurativeThe South Korea-born artist confronts a lack of nuance in playful works which rethink vintage pin-up motifs
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This secret London listening bar is inspired by David Lynch’s ‘Red Room’Near Peckham Rye station, Upstairs at Hausu draws inspiration from cinema with sultry vibes and tactile interiors
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This pint-sized Battersea apartment is 50 square metres of pure fantasy – and it’s for saleA one-bedroom show apartment, designed by Los Angeles studio House of Honey, transforms the life of cabaret singer Evelyn Dove into a sensorial, theatrical interior
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Simpson’s in the Strand makes a majestic returnHospitality legend Jeremy King hooks up with a bastion of the London restaurant scene for a match made in dining heaven
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London's best Italian restaurants for pizza and pasta aficionadosFrom four-course blow-outs to the perfect pizza , food critic Ben McCormack recommends London's best Italian restaurants to have on your radar
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40 Duke is Selfridges’ new personal shopping proposition – but it doesn’t stop thereAt the summit of Selfridges, 40 Duke redefines personal shopping for its most elite clientele – blending retail, hospitality and culture into a members’-club-style experience
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Kengo Kuma will design the National Gallery’s huge new expansionLondon’s National Gallery has chosen the Tokyo-based architect to design a £350 million new wing
