All our long-term subscribers are dear to us. In their company we have changed and grown; with their support we prospered. Some have been with us since that stumbling, sticky foal of a first issue, seen our thoroughbred promise and stuck along for the remarkable ride. Others signed up when we were more fully in our stride, fleet and fluent. People are keen to tell us that they have that first issue and what a prize it is. Or that they have every issue, carefully stacked and stowed. Which got us thinking.
Here are the creative spaces of just a few of our notable loyalists – first-rank architects, designers and artists all – their Wallpaper* collections (sometimes leather-bound) close to hand, an ever-present inspiration. This is a thank-you to all those who have been with us through thick and thin. We understand that, issue after issue, year after year, we owe it to them to aim high. Then double it.
Sir Jony Ive
The Mac Daddy
Wallpaper* subscriber since 1996
Pictured: Ive’s desktop essentials at the Apple Industrial Design Studio in California
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So how do you keep yours? Stacked or shelved in date order? Proudly displayed or in a nukeproof vault? Share a picture of your Wallpaper* collection (or your most prized issue) using #SubscriberSince and tagging @wallpapermag on Twitter and/or Instagram
Massimo Listri
Hotshot shot-taker
Wallpaper* subscriber since 1996
The Italian photographer keeps his collection beautifully bound. Photography: Massimo Listri
Rick Owens
Fashion and furniture designer, unrepentant goth
Wallpaper* subscriber since 1996
Wallpaper* stacks up at Owens’ Paris home. Photography: Benjamin Bouchet
Giorgio Armani
Ol’ blue eyes
Wallpaper* subscriber since 1996
Mr Armani affords us some shelf respect at his Milan office. Photography: Beppe Brancato
Carsten Höller
Artist, slide champion and aviculturist
Wallpaper* subscriber since 1996
Life is tweet at Höller’s Stockholm home. Photography: Elisabeth Toll
Ludovica+Roberto Palomba
Architects, designers and bathtub titans
Wallpaper* subscribers since 1996
We’re carefully shaded in the duo’s sun parlour in Milan. Photography: Andrea Garuti
Donatella Versace
Fashion empress & ambitious blonde
Wallpaper* subscriber since 1996
Gilty pleasures. Coffee and Wallpaper* at Versace’s Milan apartment. Photography: Andrea Garuti