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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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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Check into Louis Vuitton’s playful hotel concept in LondonAn epic pop-up in Mayfair brings together a café, bar, exhibition and shop to mark 130 years of Louis Vuitton’s Monogram
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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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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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Faye Toogood brings a surrealist edge to this new London restaurantFrom Notting Hill to Spitalfields, Holly Carrot begins a new chapter with whimsical interiors and a ravishing plant-forward menu
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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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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
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Studio Nocturne is the fashion and art world’s next favourite bookstoreFormer curator of the Alaïa Bookstore, Flora Gau, has opened an enclave for ‘spells, books and art objects’ in east London
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Chef Sally Abé finds her own voice at Teal in HackneyTeal by Sally Abé is built on British produce, nostalgic flavours, and sisterhood
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The Cadogan reimagines its restaurant as a bucolic English gardenWillett’s arrives as a convivial neighbourhood restaurant at The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel in London, with a verdant, serene design by Studio Shayne Brady
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Out of office: What the Wallpaper* editors are looking forward to in AprilOur editors highlight what’s new, noteworthy and not-to-be-missed in design, culture and beyond this month
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The new London restaurants to book nowThis month brings charcoal-fired Abruzzese cooking, a grand dining room reborn, and a high-octane izakaya
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Daphne Wright casts her family in Jesmonite. Discover her works in LondonAt Frith Street Gallery, the artist explores a fascination with materials; when we visit, she tells us about the ‘sulking’ power of clay and her ‘very brutal’ way to make work
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This moody London restaurant merges seasonal Japanese fare with ‘ascetic minimalism’With Akari lamps, Daidō Moriyama photography and matcha tiramisu, Kino is a must-visit new restaurant in South Kensington
