Amy Serafin
Amy Serafin, Wallpaper’s Paris editor, has 20 years of experience as a journalist and editor in print, online, television, and radio. She is editor in chief of Impact Journalism Day, and Solutions & Co, and former editor in chief of Where Paris. She has covered culture and the arts for The New York Times and National Public Radio, business and technology for Fortune and SmartPlanet, art, architecture and design for Wallpaper*, food and fashion for the Associated Press, and has also written about humanitarian issues for international organisations.
Latest articles by Amy Serafin
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Martin Margiela’s art rebirth: obsession, enigma and revelation
Elusive ‘anti-fashion’ designer Martin Margiela unveils his first show as a fully-fledged artist; It’s radical, renegade and full of surprises
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Magnum Photos’ new Paris gallery spotlights past and future
Magnum Photos expands its footprint with a new gallery space in Paris, inaugurated with multigenerational joint show ‘Bruce Davidson & Khalik Allah: New York’
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AccorHotels launches Flying Nest, a roving hotel concept designed by Ora-ïto
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Counter moves: meet the talented young chefs beefing up Berlin’s culinary scene
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Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten think big for their new Paris studio
Johan Creten's three-ton bronze bat, De Vleermuis, is being displayed at Petit Palais during FIAC art fair
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Artist Sophie Calle on love, loss and 125 years of lonely hearts ads
French artist Sophie Calle’s work spans imagined lives and actual death. Here, she talks about exhibitionism and intimacies, love and loss, and more than a century’s worth of lonely hearts ads that inspired her latest project and a 20-page portfolio for Wallpaper's November 2020 issue
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Ora-ïto and Thierry Marx do Japanese street food the Parisian way
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Last chance to see: Reclaim the Earth, urge artists at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo
We discover the group exhibition ‘Reclaim the Earth’, a wake-up call for humans to reconsider our relationship with the planet (until 4 September 2022)
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After 40 years in craft, French textile artist Simone Pheulpin is finally making her point
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Cutting class: Parisian men’s outfitter Husbands is a lesson in cultivated cool
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How a Mexican movie mogul is revitalizing his home town through design
Mexico travel facts: Morelia, Michoacán is becoming a cultural and culinary hub
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Vine art: Foster’s Château Margaux extension blends vintage with modern
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Sporting inspiration triumphs at 3XN’s new Olympic House in Lausanne
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Serge Cajfinger swaps Paris for a Bahia beach house by Marcio Kogan
Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan designs a dream house out of concrete blocks and a eucalyptus-stick pergola for Paule Ka founder Serge Cajfinger
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Hedi Slimane’s store designs ramp up retail at Celine
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Robert Wilson’s macabre video portraits of Lady Gaga
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Oliver Beer’s mouth-to-mouth performance art resounds through Paris’ Opéra Garnier
The British artist presents a sound and video installation, Compositions for Mouths (Songs My Mother Taught Me), at Opéra Garnier in collaboration with French audio brand Devialet
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All change: Daniel Buren makes a connection at Tottenham Court Road
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New Hope is Brussels’ treasure trove of 20th century design
Olivier Dwek creates gallery New Hope, a treasure trove of 20th-century design in Brussels
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Virtuous victuals served on architectural table toppers win Wallpaper* Design Award
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Behind the design: strong yet sensual salt and pepper mills
For Wallpaper* Handmade X, interior architect Charles Zana and Atelier François Pouenat collaborate on simple tubular forms in copper and brass
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Star attraction: the making of Jean Nouvel Design, Neal Feay Company and Sapa's Wallpaper* Arcade
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Legendary Paris department store La Samaritaine reopens
Following an extensive redesign by a team of international architects and designers, legendary Paris department store La Samaritaine reopens its doors
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On board the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express with Veuve Clicquot
Champagne house Veuve Clicquot marks its 250th anniversary with a special train journey from Reims to Venice, on board the fabled Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. Wallpaper* Paris editor Amy Serafin went along for an exceptional ride, featuring haute cuisine, live music and alpine scenery, washed down with endless bubbles
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