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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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In Chile, Dharq Arquitecto’s pavilion-style home comprises twenty-two sliding doorsDharq Arquitectos joins the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2026 with a forest cabin that touches lightly on its natural setting
By Tianna Williams Published
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Fall in love with the strange beauty of artist Gwen John150 years after her birth, Welsh artist Gwen John has her first major retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
By Emily Steer Published
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A camera that does it all? Sony’s new RX10 V offers power, speed and a mighty lensThe latest iteration of Sony’s big-lensed RX10 combines a massive zoom with functionality across the board
By Jonathan Bell Published
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The artist-led Fonds Bustamante is Arles’ newest creative gemThe brainchild of Jean-Marc Bustamante, and designed by Charles Zana, the new art foundation has opened its doors in an old church building in the south of France
By Amy Serafin Published
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Surrounded by larch trees, a new Evian concert hall makes music ‘warm and silky’Titled La Source Vive, the new venue by Patrick Bouchain and Philippe Chiambaretta is an organic building set within the forest in rural France
By Amy Serafin Published
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A brutalist bolthole for sale in one of France’s most iconic concrete apartment complexesArchitecture de Collection are offering up a brutalist duplex in the heart of Gailhoustet and Renaudie’s Etoiles d’Ivry in Ivry-sur-Seine
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Step inside the world of Christian Gimonet, the pioneering French modernistDiscover the late architect’s work, representing his own gentle expression of regional modernism – and watch our film
By Adam Štěch Published
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The Architecture Edit: 10 striking houses we couldn't take our eyes off in MarchFrom a home tucked between two Brazilian mountain ranges to a triangular concrete monolith in Lithuania, these are the architectural projects that caught our attention this month
By Anna Solomon Published
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A Jacques Couëlle-designed modernist home near Cannes gets an organic refreshThis experimental house in the South of France has been brought to 21st-century standards through an interior refresh by Miriam Frowein
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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France’s largest sauna just opened in Paris – try it while it’s hotSant Roch is dedicated to contrast therapy; in the immersive space, lighting, materiality, playlists and scent invite you to take the plunge
By Tianna Williams Published
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This sun-drenched Le Corbusier villa – where modernism meets the Mediterranean – could be yoursIn Villa de Mandrot, the architect translated his purist, industrial modernism into a South of France setting – now listed for €2.3 million
By Anna Solomon Published