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At home with Charlie Le Mindu
We caught up with Charlie Le Mindu, the French hair artist best known for his work with Lady Gaga and Julia Fox, ahead of the exhibition and auction of his work in Paris this week.
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At home with artists Langlands & Bell
Even in a period of social distancing, the art world continues to turn. In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. We caught up with the duo at home in their self-designed rural idyll in Kent to talk birdsong opera, the secret to creative longevity and their forthcoming project on Ghana's slave forts
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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At home with artist Gabriel Rico
Even in a period of social distancing, the art world continues to turn. In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. Reached during his temporary seclusion among the Mexican mountains, Gabriel Rico reveals how his poetic assemblages of found objects draw on culture, philosophy and the natural order of things
By TF Chan • Last updated
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At home with artist Hank Willis Thomas
In our ongoing ‘At Home With' profile series, we go home, from home, with artists to hear about what they’re making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. Here, we speak to American artist Hank Willis Thomas about how a premonition in January 2020 led him to the forefront of one of the most overdue cultural reckonings of the last 100 years
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At home with artist Joana Vasconcelos
Even in a period of social distancing, the art world continues to turn. In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. We sat down (via Zoom) with the Lisbon-based artist to discuss David Bowie, the perils of wearing corsets and her much-anticipated Wedding Cake installation for Waddesdon Manor
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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At home with artist Theaster Gates
In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. This week, we reach American artist Theaster Gates at his home in Chicago to discuss new work for Gagosian’s Artist Spotlight series, and how, in recent times, he’s fallen back in love with making.
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At home with American artist Charles Gaines
In our ongoing profile series, we go home, from home, with artists to hear about what they’re making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. Here, we speak to pioneering American artist Charles Gaines about how grids, formulas and systems can drive conceptualism
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Interview: at home with Jeff Koons
In our ongoing profile series, we find out what artists are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. We visit Jeff Koons (via Zoom) in his New York City studio to discuss transcendence, the Renaissance, and his show, ‘Shine’ at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
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At home with Xavier Veilhan
In our ongoing profile series, we find out what artists are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. Xavier Veilhan tells us about his new show at Perrotin New York, the oddities of NFTs, and the role of public (or not-so-public) sculpture
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At home with Kelly Wearstler
American designer Kelly Wearstler talks about her approach to interiors, her California homes, favourite LA spots, creative inspiration and more
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At home with artist Julie Mehretu
Here, Camille Okhio discusses myths and motherhood with American artist Julie Mehretu ahead of her major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art
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At home with artist Sarah Oppenheimer
In our interview profile series, we hear about what artists are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. Sarah Oppenheimer, master of architectural manipulations, talks spatial hierarchies, human touch and the creation of her ‘Sensitive Machine’, now on view in New York
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At home with artist Chiharu Shiota
In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. We catch up this week with Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota on creating art with her body, and the past lives of found objects
By TF Chan • Last updated
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At home with Sophie Bille Brahe
Sophie Bille Brahe’s modern jewellery designs, embracing pearls and diamonds for everyday wear, have quietly upended the fine jewellery market. Here, she talks inspiration and creative process, hopes and dreams, and downtime and dogs
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At home with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão
we talk to artists about what they’re making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. Tracked down at the foot of a volcano in Costa Rica, Adriana Varejão discusses her Oscar Niemeyer-designed house, the eroticism of pulsating meat, and her solo show ‘Talavera’, on now at Gagosian, New York
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At home with Cyndia Harvey
Following the launch of her haircare line for texture-rich hair, T.H.O.M, visionary hairstylist Cyndia Harvey talks about beauty, creative process, managing ‘low periods’ in the past, and her exciting present
By Mary Cleary • Last updated
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At home with Inge Grognard
Inge Grognard, make-up artist of choice for Martin Margiela, Dries Van Noten, and Balenciaga’s Demna Gvasalia, gives us a peek into her creative process and personal life
By Mary Cleary • Last updated
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At home with Hew Locke
Our ‘At home with’ interview series explores what creatives are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. This time, we step over the threshold with Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke
By Harriet Lloyd Smith • Last updated
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At home with Russell Tovey
Celebrated actor, art advocate and podcaster, Russell Tovey talks to Wallpaper* about emerging artists, queer art, his hopes for the Talk Art franchise, and his ongoing collaborations with artist Navot Miller
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At home with Rick Owens
Speaking in the run-up to his S/S 2023 menswear collection, shown today in Paris, renegade designer Rick Owens talks working process, inspiration, and the ‘concrete palace’ he calls home
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At home with Deborah Berke
Architect Deborah Berke talks to us about art, collaboration, climate change and the future, from the living room of her Long Island home
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At home with Daniel Arsham
Speaking from New York, prolific pan-creative Daniel Arsham discusses dream collaborators, Star Wars, and advice for the next generation, and shares images of his work, travels and home on Long Island
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Interview: at home with Ai Weiwei
In our ongoing interview profile series, we hear about what artists are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. As Ai Weiwei releases his long-awaited memoir, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, we revisit our June 2021 interview with the artist
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At home with Manolo Blahnik
Speaking from his home in the Canary Islands, the legendary shoe designer talks about finding inspiration, his current reading list, and what he would serve if Wallpaper* came to dinner
By Jack Moss • Last updated
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At home with Christopher John Rogers
As Christopher John Rogers reveals his first furniture collaboration with Orior at New York Fashion Week, the celebrated American fashion designer takes Wallpaper* to his Brooklyn home to talk inspiration, indulgences and letting go
By Tilly Macalister-Smith • Last updated
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At home with Yinka Ilori
Speaking ahead of his first solo display at London's Design Museum (15 September 2022 – 25 June 2023), British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori welcomes us to his new London studio space to talk family, music, daily routines, and his most joyful projects
By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated
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At home with Sumayya Vally
South African architect Sumayya Vally of Counterspace talks to us about Johannesburg, Geoffrey Bawa, and how if she weren't an architect, she'd be a storyteller
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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