The back page of Wallpaper* currently features a series in which we take a look at the desks of the high and mighty. See if you can guess the identity of this month's contender through his personal effects. Scroll down for the answer.
From left: Oak Straight table, £ 1,365, by Ethnicraft, from Aram. Boxitalia boxing gloves in leather, €55, by Seletti. Ceramic remote control, prototype, by Yuta Watanabe. 100mm Scots Pine tree, £7, by the tree department, for 4D modelshop. Vehicles from top: 1:100 lorry, £7, by Schulcz, from 4D modelshop. 1:100 box back lorry, £6, by Schulcz, from 4D model shop. 1:500 lorries, £5, by 4D modelshop. 1:200 cars (from a set of 20), £5, by Schulcz, from 4D modelshop. Concrete Thoughts, the Whitworth Art gallery, £9, by Manchester University Press, from RIBA bookshop. Towards A New Architecture £10, by Le Corbusier, published by Dover publications, from RIBA bookshop. Fabrica Sketchbook, £6, by Fabrica, from Beyond the Valley. Pirkka chair, £336, by Ilmari Tapiovaara, from Twentytwentyone. Tino Concrete clock, £137, by Kuno Prey, for Danese Milano, from Oggetti.. Japanese bonsai branch cutter, £45, by Suwada from Hyuka-Nen. Touchcrete light, £250, by Luke Bowers, from Mint. bt 10-1: Fairfaced Concrete Type Plattenbau wallpaper, €36 per square metre, by Cord Woywodt & Ulrich Krampe, from Betontapete.
Answer: Tadao Ando
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