France Art, architecture and travel
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in France - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to France.
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Maison de Verre: a dramatic glass house in France by Studio Odile Decq
Maison de Verre in Carantec is a glass box with a difference, housing a calming interior with a science fiction edge
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Jean-Philippe Delhomme’s new murals for Carlyle & Co are fairytales of New York
In his murals for Hong Kong’s soon-to-open members’ club Carlyle & Co, the French artist takes New York’s iconic Carlyle Hotel as his muse. We go behind the scenes in Delhomme’s Paris studio to watch the works unfold
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Sergei Shchukin’s modern masters reunite, for the first time outside of Russia
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Parallel universe: Laurent Grasso’s beguiling reinvention of a Corsican Beaux-Arts museum
By TF Chan Last updated
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Francesco Vezzoli sings a new song for one night only at the Centre Pompidou
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Home is where the art is: in Private Choice, a Parisian apartment doubles as a contemporary gallery
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Disappearing act: artist JR makes IM Pei's Louvre pyramid vanish
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Retail therapy: the Pompidou Centre’s design store gets a makeover
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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The wall-free architecture of Claude Parent
A new, carefully edited tome celebrates the life and contribution of the French architect, who passed away in 2016
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Loan ranger: Caen's public library by OMA to complete in 2017
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Galerie Patrick Seguin installs Jean Prouvé’s demountable house at Château La Coste
By Christopher Stocks Last updated
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Elizabeth de Portzamparc embeds a museum into the historic centre of Nîmes
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Remembering Claude Parent's unique take on modernist architecture
We look back on Claude Parent's slant on modernist architecture, five years after the iconic architect's passing, by revisiting Wallpaper* contributing editor Emma O'Kelly's meeting with him in 2007
By Emma O'Kelly Last updated
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Remembering Pierre Soulages (1919-2022), a pioneer of post-war abstraction
Pierre Soulages, the pioneering French printmaker, sculptor and ‘painter of black’, has died aged 102
By Diane Theunissen Published
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Eye spy: graphic artist Vahram Muratyan lends his famous frames to Smythson
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Female intuition: Officine Générale debuts womenswear collection
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Fancy dressing: menswear label Helbers is a balance between rough and refined
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Jean-Phillipe Delhomme pulls off another sharp turn for Moncler’s A/W17 collection
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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French fancy: Parisian label Ami launches womenswear
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Charles Zana creates unexpected dialogues with 17 paired works in Paris
In exhibition Utopia, Charles Zana turns Tornabuoni Art in Paris into a salon of intimate conversations between Italy’s greatest post-war artists and architects
By Benoit Loiseau Last updated
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Play time: Paris’ Cité de la Mode et du Design puts on a show dedicated to childish fun
By Jean Grogan Last updated
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Les Lalanne’s personal collection to go under the hammer
In October, a landmark sale dedicated to five decades of the French artist duo Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne’s creativity will take place at Sotheby’s Paris
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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Giacometti’s studio brought to life in art deco Paris mansion
By Clara Le Fort Last updated
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Stéphane Parmentier puts a graphic spin on hardware design with divine new collection
By Siska Lyssens Last updated
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A new weave: Calla Haynes repurposes fashion collections into Moroccan rugs
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Eternal objects: Karen Chekerdjian's gutsy forms at L'Institut du Monde Arabe
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Time travel: Gabriel & Guillaume host Parisian pop-up at Christofle
With eclecticism at their core, and a united belief that shopping should be fun, Gabriel & Guillaume have ‘popped up’ in Paris. For the next month, the duo have taken over the upstairs rooms of Christofle’s headquarters to curate three mises-en-scène where 18th century mirrors sit next to 1970s bamboo lighting and rare art nouveau finds
By Emma O'Kelly Last updated