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MAGAZINE | 13 DECEMBER 2018

Our January issue uncovers the next generation of future-scaping creatives, reveals the winner of Best Urban Hotels, and previews the 2019 Design Awards

This issue includes, among other wonderful things, our annual curation and celebration of new graduate talent in architecture, design, fashion, photography, visual communication and more. These are no wild punts or ill-judged speculations. Time, effort and occasional cross words have gone into this massive trawl and painful winnowing of international smart young things. And to prove just how convinced we are of their talent and potential, we have put some of these early bloomers to work – designing the spectacular, articulated typeface on our cover, illustrating our contributors’ page and shooting elements of our Newspaper section and our graduate fashion showcase. The winner of our inaugural Wallpaper* New Generation photography prize, plucked and anointed at the latest Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography, has shot our main fashion story, a tale of romantic intrigue among sharply stylish roomies. All have more than risen to the challenge.

They are all part of a generation – and I don’t want to use the ‘M’ word – that has had a bad press. Some folks, wizened old Xers like me mostly, have accused their age group of an outsized sense of entitlement, of a resistance to paying their professional dues, in the old-fashioned way. That’s not what we hear in our conversations with this next wave of graduate talent. Sure, there is high ambition. Nothing wrong with that. And often that ambition stretches well beyond personal glory and advancement. They are thinking big picture. Their work tackles ideas around community and identity, belonging and isolation, gender roles and social responsibility. They also understand that the media they work in are shifting and uncertain. That the things they do and the tools they use today may become redundant or be reimagined almost instantly. They understand that there will be the constant need for improvisation and experimentation, rethinking and retraining in the most fundamental sense. Career paths and game plans won’t survive their first interrogation. They will need entrepreneurial nous and hustle-muscles, sharp elbows and thick skins in ways not required of previous generations. They will do things differently. And that is really something worth celebrating.

Nick Compton, Acting Editor

Our Graduate Directory reveals the world’s brightest new talents in design, architecture, fashion, photography, visual communication, jewellery and transport

Hand-picked by Wallpaper* the Graduate Directory includes 18 rising stars in the field of design, six of them featured here Photography: Benedict Morgan, Interiors: Maria Sobrino

Enlightened thinking for the great outdoors

Out-there outdoor lighting from design luminaries Louis Poulsen, Ethimo, Marset, Foscarini and Exteta. Photography: Thomas Brown, Interiors: Matthew Morris

Sideways glances and insouciant staples, lensed by Allyssa Heuze, winner of the inaugural Wallpaper* New Generation photography prize

Shirt and skirt by Hermès, twill linen cushion cover and mohair blanket from The Conran Shop. Photography: Allyssa Heuze, Fashion: Isabelle Kountoure

For his NYC debut, Tadao Ando brings his signature simplicity to the condo

A fog and light installation by Tadao Ando and Gabellini Sheppard behind the reception desk in the seven-residence condominium, 152 Elizabeth Street Photography: Naho Kubota

This year’s Best Urban Hotel is a fantastically furnished Sicilian palazzo, as voted by our jet-setting judging panel

The winning interiors of this 18th-century converted palazzo, Asmundo di Gisira in Catania, are inspired by Sicilian legends, referenced with a contemporary design language by local studio GUM Photography: Filippo Bamberghi

Chilean practice Elemental shows monumental leanings with a blockbuster of a retreat

This holiday retreat for a private developer has a highly sculptural silhouette of two large block volumes. The lower inclined block is a gigantic chimney stack, it leans towards a larger volume that houses a series of bedrooms Photography: Cristobal Palma

A collaboration between artist Hiroshi Senju and Japanese rug maker Yamagata Dantsu has us walking on water

Yamagata Dantsu’s ‘Suijin’ carpet in production, with two completed designs on the floor. The largest uses as many as 62 colour gradations to capture Senju’s design Photography: Christoffer Rudquist

A new generation of Johannesburg artists is plumbing South Africa’s recent history and building a creative head of steam

We profile eight artists who have made Johannesburg their home, including Billie Zangewa, pictured here creating works in fabric at her kitchen table Photography: Nico Krijno

January Issue: Limited-edition cover by Nicholas Hlobo

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