France
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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Florentine menswear festival Pitti Uomo puts its most exuberant foot forward yetBy Dan Thawley Last updated
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Celtic legend meets Japanese Noh theatre in dance directed by Hiroshi SugimotoThe artist and photographer joined forces with fashion designer Rick Owens, choreographer Alessio Silvestrin and electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda for his first production at the Paris Opera
By Minako Norimatsu Last updated
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Paris' third arrondissement gains a Japanese themed design spaceBy Henrietta Thompson Last updated
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Ahead of its first permanent home, Lafayette Anticipation presents a taster of things to comeBy Amy Verner Last updated
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Maison de Verre: a dramatic glass house in France by Studio Odile DecqMaison 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 YorkIn 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 RussiaBy Amy Verner Last updated
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Parallel universe: Laurent Grasso’s beguiling reinvention of a Corsican Beaux-Arts museumBy TF Chan Last updated
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Francesco Vezzoli sings a new song for one night only at the Centre PompidouBy Amy Verner Last updated
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Le Corbusier's Claude & Duval factory, FranceBy Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Retail therapy: the Pompidou Centre’s design store gets a makeoverBy Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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The wall-free architecture of Claude ParentA 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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Vision of vignettes: Michael Anastassiades at Galerie Dansk Møbelkunst, ParisBy Amy Verner Last updated
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Loan ranger: Caen's public library by OMA to complete in 2017By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Elizabeth de Portzamparc embeds a museum into the historic centre of NîmesBy Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Remembering Claude Parent's unique take on modernist architectureWe 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 abstractionPierre 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 SmythsonBy Amy Verner 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 collectionBy Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Life’s a beach: Lucien Pagès’ holiday takeover makes a splash at ColetteBy Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Hit-maker Francesco Russo debuts made-to-order shoe service at Harvey NicholsBy Katrina Israel Last updated
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French fancy: Parisian label Ami launches womenswearBy Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Charles Zana creates unexpected dialogues with 17 paired works in ParisIn 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 funBy Jean Grogan Last updated
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Les Lalanne’s personal collection to go under the hammerIn 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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Stéphane Parmentier puts a graphic spin on hardware design with divine new collectionBy Siska Lyssens Last updated


