A year after departing the runway, Dries van Noten unveils his next chapter: the Fondazione Dries Van Noten, a newly announced cultural initiative in Venice celebrating craft in all its forms. Wallpaper meets the designer to find out why he’s not ready to retire.

By Ali Morris Published 12 December 25

For the first time, the Nobel Prize banquet has been reimagined as a live artwork. Swedish-Greek artist and scenographer Alexander Wessely speaks to Wallpaper* about creating a three-act meditation on light inside Stockholm City Hall

By Ali Morris Published 11 December 25

The jaw-dropping price marked the highest-ever for a work by François-Xavier Lalanne – and for a work of design generally

By Anna Fixsen Published 11 December 25