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The Wallpaper* Design Awards is our annual celebration of the very best of the best

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Wallpaper* Design Awards: Capella Taipei wins Best New Opening 2026

Designed by André Fu, Capella Taipei is a long-overdue and much-needed addition to the Taiwanese capital’s limited luxury hotel scene

Wallpaper* Design Awards: meet Klára Hosnedlová, art’s Best Dreamscaper

The immersive worlds that the Czech artist creates make her a worthy Wallpaper* Design Award 2026 winner; she speaks to us ahead of her first show at White Cube, London

By Hannah Silver Published 9 January 26
Wallpaper* Design Awards: Orient Express wins Best Reinvention 2026

Orient Express has held a near-mythic place in the globetrotting firmament since launching in 1883, but its recent reinvention – including its first hotel and an upcoming yacht – signals a decisive new chapter

By Sofia de la Cruz Published 9 January 26
Wallpaper* Design Awards: why Sharan Pasricha is 2026’s Best Host

We salute the Indian-born, London-based hospitality entrepreneur who can’t stop thinking about ways to upgrade how we live, work and connect

By Lauren Ho Published 8 January 26
Wallpaper* Design Awards: A ‘no-hands’ watch is the Best Time Warp of 2026

The Ur-Freak watch by Ulysse Nardin and Urwerk reimagines a 2001 timepiece and wins a Wallpaper* Design Award

By Hannah Silver Published 8 January 26
Wallpaper* Design Awards: Detroit is City of the Year 2026

Once a byword for urban distress, the Motor City is undergoing a fresh wave of regeneration, driven by progressive developers, design distinctions and dynamic investment

By Adrian Madlener Published 8 January 26
Wallpaper* Design Awards: Willo Perron is Designer of the Year 2026

The mastermind behind some of the world’s most spectacular cultural moments, Willo Perron has been capturing the creative zeitgeist for 20 years. We interview the designer, honoured in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026

By Laura May Todd Published 8 January 26

See the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026 unfold in the February issue, on sale now

Discover the standout stars of design, architecture, art, fashion, travel and tech, honoured by a flat-packed Formafantasma trophy, in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026 issue, on newsstands

By Bill Prince Published 8 January 26
The Wallpaper* Design Awards are back in 2026 – see who's shortlisted

Our annual design awards returns in January – here are the first shortlisted nominees

By Léa Teuscher Published 10 December 25
Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026: Life-enhancer of the year shortlist

Discover the shortlist for Life-Enhancer of the Year in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026, from an innovative night light to a blueprint for play

By Rosa Bertoli Published 10 December 25

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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026: City of the Year shortlist

Explore the nominated urban locations making an impact in design, architecture and contemporary culture

Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026: Launch of the year shortlist

Discover the shortlist for Launch of the Year in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026, from an innovative museum concept to a glass-like hydrating face mask

By Rosa Bertoli Published 10 December 25
Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026: Designer of the Year shortlist

Meet the Wallpaper* Designers of the Year nominees: bringing calm, consideration and integrity to the year's key design moments

By Rosa Bertoli Published 10 December 25
Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: the make-up collections defining contemporary beauty

The beauty winners of the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025, selected by beauty editor Hannah Tindle, include playful and eclectic make-up collections by Hermès, Celine, Dior, Chanel and Prada

By Hannah Tindle Published 3 February 25
The Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 winners are…

Find every Wallpaper* Design Award 2025 winner here, and in the February print issue, spanning art, architecture, beauty, design & interiors, fashion, tech, travel and watches & jewellery. Watch the Wallpaper* editors talk about the judging process and the themes that unite this year's winners

By Bridget Downing Published 31 January 25
Design Awards 2025: we celebrate Saint Laurent’s designer doppelgangers

Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello conjured the spirit of house founder Yves Saint Laurent and his signature thick-rimmed glasses for a masterful S/S 2025 collection of tailoring-clad lookalikes

By Jack Moss Published 27 January 25
This Flexform armchair, inspired by the uplifted lapels of a jacket, is a calculation in comfort

The ‘Eri’ armchair by Fumie Shibata for Flexform wins 'Best Comfort Zone' in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025

By Hugo Macdonald Published 20 January 25

Architect Sou Fujimoto explains how the ‘idea of the forest’ is central to everything

Sou Fujimoto has been masterminding the upcoming Expo 2025 Osaka for the past five years, as the site’s design producer. To mark the 2025 Wallpaper* Design Awards, the Japanese architect talks to us about 2024, the year ahead, and materiality, nature, diversity and technological advances

By Sou Fujimoto Published 17 January 25
Florim’s new ceramic surface collection is an ode to tactility

A primal pleasure, Matteo Thun and Benedetto Fasciana’s SensiTerre collection of ceramic flooring and cladding surfaces for Florim is a Wallpaper* Design Award winner

By Hugo Macdonald Published 17 January 25
Isabel + Helen on bringing the Wallpaper* Design Awards to life

Step behind the scenes of the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 cover. Designed by Isabel + Helen, it is a welcome reminder that we still have magic in our own minds and hands

By Hugo Macdonald Published 15 January 25

Formafantasma's ‘La Casa Dentro’ exhibition wins a Wallpaper* Design Award, which took to task the inherent masculinity and conservatism at the heart of modernism

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

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 15 January 25
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 14 January 25
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 14 January 25
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 13 January 25
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 – watch our video, where Wallpaper’s Hannah Silver gives the backstory

By Hannah Silver Published 13 January 25
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 12 January 25

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 12 January 25
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 12 January 25
Tour Marche Arboretum, a new 'museum' of plants in Belgium

Marche Arboretum is a joyful new green space in Belgium, dedicated to nature and science – and a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025 winner

By Ellie Stathaki Published 12 January 25

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