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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Mount Street Neighbourhood Arts Festival is back. Here is what you need to knowThis year sees Miles Aldridge’s photography take centre stage around the Mayfair address, plus pub quizzes, performances and more
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Rose Easton celebrates lumps, bumps and offbeat desirability in LondonIn 'Lumps and Bumps', gallerist Rose Easton is drawn to the unconventional and asks artists to channel the spirit of Rei Kawakubo
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A London workspace built around the warmth of the ‘hearth’ – not just for the reasons you’d thinkElsley House by SODA is a London workspace that nods to modern needs and desires, while echoing its historic location's identity
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A West London extension thinks big, bringing light and flow to a neglected period lean-toEaling Return by Brown Urbanism and Kitchen Bee elevates a humble terraced house in West London through contemporary design
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The 29-year journey that brought Battle Royale’s Tatsuya Fujiwara to the Barbican for Haruki Murakami’s cult novel adaptationHaruki Murakami’s 1985 novel, 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and End of the World', will be on stage at the Barbican from 8-11 October. The star of the show, Tatsuya Fujiwara, takes us behind the scenes
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The best new London restaurants to try nowFrom a crowdfunded café in Islington to a revived City chop house and Endo Kazutoshi’s new Chelsea counter, these are the London tables to book now
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London art exhibitions to see in OctoberRead our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from Cindy Sherman at Hauser & Wirth to Tim Walker at the National Portrait Gallery
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Aston Martin bolsters its luxury credentials by debuting the DBX GT at its new Mayfair venueThe Aston Martin DBX GT made its debut at Q London in Berkeley Square, a new destination for the brand in the heart of the capital
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Lepas explores the future of automotive design at the V&ABespoke Partnership
As part of London’s Global Design Forum, a panel presented by Lepas brought together fresh perspectives on the future of automotive design
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Renée Levi's colourful painting takes over the Hayward Gallery‘September’, co-commissioned by the Hayward Gallery and Audemars Piguet Contemporary, is Levi's first large-scale commission in the UK
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This Rose Uniacke-designed London apartment transcends periods and culturesThe designer creates a home for a collector, complete with midcentury icons and even an Egyptian artefact
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Stone Island drafts Willo Perron to design its new London pop-up – a collector’s delightAt Selfridges Corner Shop, ‘Selected Works ’982–’026 Stone Island: The Collector Series’ invites the brand’s most prolific collectors to give their interpretation of its ‘living archive’
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The Park Hyatt Residences' launch marks a special moment on the London riversideSales have launched for the Park Hyatt Residences on the London riverside, opening the doors to two show apartments with interiors by South African designer Christian Bense
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Bakery Hoko serves up a sweet slice of Hong Kong in London, with a dusting of local brutalismThe latest Hoko brings Hong Kong specials like milk tea and egg tarts to Bethnal Green, amid interiors that nod to post-war housing estates
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The Barbican’s Sculpture Court to be revived as a public space by 2030The historic brutalist sculpture court will be revitalised as part of the Barbican’s wider Renewal programme, ahead of the Centre’s 50th anniversary in 2032
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The Horses is everything you want a British pub to be – and moreThe new Clerkenwell pub by Public House Group not only has classic pub-style seating, but also is home to an elegant seafood dining room upstairs
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Homme Plissé Issey Miyake reimagines Matisse’s ‘The Snail’ at London’s Tate ModernThe latest chapter of Homme Plissé Issey Miyake’s Open Studio saw the Japanese label draw on Matisse’s ‘The Snail’ for inspiration, with help from Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck and the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company
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Everything you need to know about London Fashion WeekFrom the return of McQueen to Christopher Kane’s Mulberry debut, Wallpaper* picks the moments to look out for at the latest edition of London Fashion Week, which begins today (17 September 2026)
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The Hayward Gallery announces a major Cao Fei exhibition. Take a first look hereIn 2027, the London gallery will host the Chinese artist’s largest UK exhibition to date
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At Saatchi Yates, Sujin Lee’s figures are frozen in introspectionSujin Lee’s exhibition ‘Where We Once Stood’, considers the stillness after an event
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Check into Bloomsbury’s newly reimagined grande dameThe Imperial Bloomsbury enters a new era with tactile interiors, a rooftop bar and a distinctly bookish London address
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2026 London Open House highlights – from the architecture festival that opens doors of all kindsLondon Open House is about to kick off – we explore what to see, as well as the unexpected impact of this city-wide architecture celebration. Here’s how the festival works for you year-round
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Tschabalala Self's Lady in Blue towers over Trafalgar SquareThe American artist brings a monumental ‘everywoman’ to London’s Fourth Plinth with ‘Lady in Blue’, a celebration of ambition, purpose and everyday life
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A pioneering force in Afro, mixed and curly hair culture, stylist Charlotte Mensah has a London exhibition‘Charlotte Mensah: Community Matters’ traces the career of one of Britain's most groundbreaking hair artists
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Richard and Su Rogers’ house, a modernist masterpiece, enters the National Trust22 Parkside in Wimbledon, a landmark example of pioneering 20th-century design, has been given to the nation by the Rogers family
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Amelia Cross blends tailoring and painting, with unique and uncanny resultsThe artist’s superbly observed works draw from the worlds of fashion and art; ‘I like the idea of the double take,’ she says as a new exhibition opens at London’s Incubator
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After 40 years in Shoreditch, SCP makes a new home in ClerkenwellAs the British furniture brand opens its new townhouse showroom on Clerkenwell Green, founder Sheridan Coakley explains why it was time for a change
