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 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 sale
A 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 return
Hospitality 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 aficionados
From 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 there
At 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 expansion
London’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 bookstore
Former 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 Hackney
Teal 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 garden
Willett’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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The new London restaurants to book now
This 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 London
At 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
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Painter-to-watch Joanna van Son puts a modern spin on the old masters at Saatchi Yates
In London, the artist’s rich oil paintings pay tribute to her partner
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Taste the Mediterranean sea at this new London restaurant
Greek in instinct and grounded in British ingredients, Jul’s is set to conquer SW1
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Cecily Brown creates immersive other worlds at the Serpentine: ‘I love the idea of getting lost in art’
Cecily Brown brings her hypnotic blend of abstract and figurative paintings to the London gallery
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‘Schiaparelli lived to shock’: V&A’s new show is an homage to the pioneering surrealist couturier
Wallpaper* takes a tour of ‘Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art’, a blockbuster new fashion exhibition on Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli, which opens at London’s V&A Museum on 28 March
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Margaret Howell and Kettle’s Yard unpack Japanese artist Kenji Umeda’s sculptural style
Following the discovery of a long-lost trunk belonging to the artist, previously unseen works, clothes and correspondence go on show in London and Cambridge
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London art exhibitions to see in April
Read our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from the Elsa Schiaparelli retrospective at the V&A to Keith Haring’s subway drawings at Moco
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Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, Es Devlin and more unite for Choose Love art auction
Choose Love has announced its auction and public exhibition to raise funds for aid in Palestine, including collectible works from Sarah Ball, Jamie Hewlett, Es Devlin, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, Grayson Perry and more
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Sale e Pepe Mare brings Italian coastal dining to The Langham London
A seafood-focused spin-off of the Knightsbridge institution brings Riviera spirit and tableside theatre to Portland Place
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This new east London design gallery is selling Jasper Morrison and Michael Marriott-designed objects for under £30
Unit.d sells everyday objects produced by local designers, all available to buy and take home immediately
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London design studio YY is using an enquiring mindset to carve a new path
We visit the London studio of Francisco Gaspar and Tawanda Chiweshe of YY as they tell us about the next chapter: ‘We are pushing people to think beyond this trap of the perfect thing’
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A retro-inspired Athenian taverna arrives in Mayfair – discover Maza
Designed by Archer Humphryes Architects, the latest restaurant of Christina Mouratoglou and Adrien Carré pairs lively Greek dining with vinyl-spun evenings
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Community housing in south London brings Arts and Crafts into the 21st century
Farmstead Road, a community housing scheme in leafy Lewisham, provides an exemplar of blending Passivhaus efficiency with quaint, craft-rich English architecture
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This biophilic workspace in east London feels anything but corporate
Conductor, a new workspace in Stratford, reimagines the office as a hospitality-inspired, nature-infused environment where design takes precedence
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Melt into the interiors of London’s latest Italian haunt
At Burro, 1950s trattoria meets Irish hospitality – discover the latest restaurant by Conor Gadd, designed by Day Studio
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Colour has flavour at this new London cocktail bar
Located in Covent Garden, Cato is a double act with New York soul and plenty of British spirit
