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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London Festival of Architecture 2026: everything you need to knowThe UK’s biggest architecture festival launches today (1 June) across the capital with a 400-entry-strong programme of activities; here is our guide for everything you need to know, where to look, what to book, and where to go
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Green Lodge, a new house in South London, digs down to create more spaceGreen Lodge is a low-energy home designed by Stylus Architects that slots into an awkward site with well-crafted precision
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The Architecture Edit: 10 striking houses we couldn't take our eyes off in MayThe very best residential architecture that the Wallpaper* editors have come across this month, from a Bauhaus-inspired painter's home to a brutalist beauty in Milan
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Celine’s Selfridges pop-up is a one-stop shop for summer dressingMichael Rider expands his Celine universe with a new ‘Été Celine’ pop-up at Selfridges’ Corner Shop, also previewing the house’s Autumn 2026 collection amid works by Japanese photographer Takashi Homma
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Andrew Heard's provocative post-pop art is ripe for rediscoveryA new exhibition shines a spotlight on a queer British artist who refined his own iconoclastic style in the 1980s and early 1990s
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Wallpaper* checks into Hotel Indigo, London – a bohemian nod to 1970s spiritHotel Indigo London K West opens in Shepherd’s Bush, nodding to the site’s musical history in a playful way
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An overhauled Edwardian house in north London is full of light and spaceFormwork Architects has completed this impressive revamp and extension of a house in Crouch End, digging down to find more space for family life
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In London, Hauser & Wirth offers a rare glimpse into Francis Picabia’s experimental worldNew exhibition ‘Francis Picabia. Expanding Horizons’ unites five decades of the artist’s work
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Hold on to your trowels! Here's what to see at The Chelsea Flower Show 2026Wallpaper* took an early tour of RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026, spotting the trends and standouts not to miss
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Margaret Howell celebrates print, marking 130 years of The Architectural Review covers in London130 years of AR covers go on show at Margaret Howell's flagship store in London, celebrating The Architectural Review's landmark anniversary
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Auguste turns a former Hackney favourite into an atmospheric Abruzzese trattoriaIn London Fields, a self-funded new opening from the teams behind Elm and Bambi brings the flame-grilled flavours of Abruzzo to a theatrical, Hopper-esque dining room
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The best pubs in LondonThe Wallpaper* guide to pubs where the beer is as carefully curated as the wine list, and where the welcome is as warm at the bar as it is in the dining room
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Five things to see at London Craft Week 2026With an emphasis on keeping heritage crafts alive, London Craft Week 2026 (11-17 May) offers a city-wide programme of exhibitions to discover artisanal excellence from established and emerging makers
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Legendary London bookshop Claire de Rouen opens a new Shoreditch spaceInside the new outpost, designed as a hub for London's established and emerging artists to find inspiration and share ideas.
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East Tokyo comes to east London at this hot new restaurantAt Mitsu, smoky Japanese flavours meet karaoke, DJ sets and late-night dancing
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This new London hotel offers everything from a biohacking lounge to a fermentation labThe first UK outpost of pioneering wellness hotel brand Six Senses opens for business and pleasure in a former London department store with a storied past
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Koko marks 125 years with new recording studio and members’ balconyThe London venue celebrates a big anniversary with two new spaces
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As Barnaby Barford shows new work in London, we look back to his takeover of the Wallpaper* fashion pagesBarnaby Barford is presenting a new exhibition at David Gill gallery. To mark the occasion, we revisit the fashionably dressed figurines he made for us almost two decades ago
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London's best tasting menusLondon’s tasting menus have evolved far beyond classical fine dining, with chefs drawing on global influences, hyper-seasonal produce and deeply personal narratives to create some of the most ambitious meals in the city
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Emerging artist Charlie Gosling is being compared to Frank Auerbach. Discover his haunting portraits in LondonAt London's Incubator gallery, 'Good Luck with Me Here,' unites a new body of work from London-born Charlie Gosling
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In the historic London hall where Vivienne Westwood made her debut, Idalia dishes up fare that's dressed to impressThe first opening in the Olympia's £1.3 billion regeneration brings food, design and cultural history back under one roof
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Out of office: What the Wallpaper* editors are looking forward to in MayOur editors highlight what’s new, noteworthy and not-to-be-missed in design, culture and beyond this month
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Cece’s opens in Notting Hill with a cinematic take on Italian diningPublic House’s most theatrical London restaurant yet pairs a transportive dining room with delightful Italian cooking
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Artists’ skewing of the financial crisis takes a satirical turn at London’s ICAA new group exhibition, ‘Genuine Fake Premium Economy’, considers the implications of the 2008 financial crisis
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This new London café traces the tension and harmony between Iranian and Iraqi cookingFounders Ziad Halub and Farsin Rabiee discuss memory, seasonality, and heritage at Logma, their popular Iranian-Iraqi concept in Hackney
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London art exhibitions to see in MayRead our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from Nengi Omuku at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to Wes Anderson's archives
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London music photographers Eddie Otchere and Normski were early documenters of UK hip hop. Here’s the story behind the imagesThey captured a rare, raucous chronicle of hip-hop’s golden age and the UK underground at its inception. Now, for the first time together, and as they both have work on show at the V&A East, they share their stories
