Geneva Art, architecture and travel
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Geneva - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Geneva.
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What are the must-see watch releases at Geneva Watch Days 2024?
Get up close and personal with Swiss haute horlogerie at Geneva Watch Days 2024, until 2 September 2024
By Thor Svaboe Published
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Watches and Wonders 2024: what to do, where to go and who to see in Geneva this weekend
As the Geneva fine watch salon opens its doors to the general public for three days this weekend, and satellite shows take over the city, here's our whistle-stop guide
By Caragh McKay Published
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Sotheby’s vintage watch sale of 24 spectacular avant-garde designs sells out in one hour
Patek Philppe's crazy-paved cuff and Audemars Piguet's emerald car are the star lots, pointing towards a new era of idiosyncratic opulence in watch design
By Caragh McKay Published
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Watches and Wonders 2024: all the highlights from the Geneva event
Discover the watches at the year's biggest watch event, Watches and Wonders
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Christian de Portzamparc’s Dior Geneva flagship store dazzles and flows
Dior’s Geneva flagship by French architect Christian de Portzamparc has a brand new, wavy façade that references the fashion designer's original processes using curves, cuts and light
By Herbert Wright Published
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The return of the Geneva Motor Show (to Geneva) as a place for global debuts
The Geneva Motor Show is back. After 2020’s pandemic cancellation and an ‘exported’ event in Qatar in 2023, the organisers of GIMS 2024 had their work cut out to stay relevant. Here are our highlights
By Guy Bird Published
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This watch heals itself: is Regenerative Carbon the future of watchmaking?
ID Genève and CompPair reveal the first self-healing watch, using Regenerative Carbon
By Hannah Silver Published
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Geneva Watch Days 2023 standouts: from Trilobe to Louis Erard
James Gurney reviews more Geneva Watch Days 2023 standouts, spanning ambitiously avant-garde designs and cool collaborations from brands that share a watch insider’s sensibility
By James Gurney Published
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Geneva Watch Days 2023: up close with five new reveals
James Gurney reports from Geneva Watch Days 2023, the mini fair that spans the design-led, the ultra-traditional and the achingly avant-garde
By James Gurney Published
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A new gem show entices the cream of contemporary jewellers to Geneva
GemGenève opens its gilded doors in Geneva tomorrow. The brainchild of an elite band of industry dealers and collectors, it promises to be a curated gem of a trade show offering a fresh perspective on today’s high jewellery world – an elite universe where collectors, experts, clients and connoisseurs converge. ‘We want GemGenève to become not only a vibrant trading place, but also an educational experience, a place where, each year, people come to discover new talents, new stories and undiscovered treasures,’ says Ida Faerber of the Faerber family, the renowned antique jewellery experts who lend to museums and galleries across the world and who spurred the show’s creation. From diamond and fine-pearl merchants to antique jewellery dealers and uniquely skilled craftsmen, GemGenève is designed to be as elegant and refined as you’d expect, but with an eye on the best in modern jewellery design too. Here’s our preview of the Contemporary Designer Showcase curated by jewellery historian and author Vivienne Becker:
By Caragh McKay Last updated
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Frank Buchwald's Nixie Machine illuminates time at Geneva's MAD Gallery
By Caragh McKay Last updated
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Phillips, in association with Bacs & Russo, presents almost 30 timepieces from a private collection
Phillips, in association with Bacs & Russo, presents almost 30 timepieces from a private collection
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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The term ‘villa’ does not do Villa du Lac justice
By Ella Marshall Last updated
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The Hamlet in Geneva is a showcase of design classics
By Melina Keays Last updated
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Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement: radical reflections on surreal times
At Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2021 kicks off with group show ‘A Goodbye Letter, A Love Call, A Wake Up Song’, a full house of subversive moving image commissions
By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated
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Geneva Motor Show digital showcase: the technology edit
A digital walkthrough of the best technology due to be shown at Geneva Motor Show 2020 in light of its precautionary cancellation
By Nargess Banks Last updated
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Olafur Eliasson reflects on ways of seeing ahead of his latest exhibiton
By Clara Le Fort Last updated
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Combs turn artworks at Geneva’s Máti gallery
Designer Aurore Piedigrossi untangles the history of the comb with her Grands Hers collection at Geneva’s Máti gallery
By Mary Cleary Last updated
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Erik Dhont goes wild in ‘unstructured’ Geneva garden
This Geneva garden is a spirited balance of art, architecture and nature, courtesy of Belgian landscape architect Erik Dhont for Karin Handlbauer, founder of Galerie Mezzanin
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Photographer Fabian Oefner tricks the eye at MAD Gallery in Geneva
By Ellen Himelfarb Last updated
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La Réserve Genève ups its game with the appointment of a new chef at Le Loti
By Lauren Ho Last updated
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Brutalist WHO headquarters extension under construction in Geneva
Visit the construction site of the ongoing extension project at the World Health Organisation headquarters in Geneva, designed by architects Berrel Berrel Kräutler; a project that places the landscape at the forefront, while paying tribute to WHO's modernist, Jean Tschumi-designed, original office building
By Stamatina Kousidi Last updated
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Geneva Motor Show digital showcase: the luxury edit
A digital walkthrough of the Geneva Motor Show 2020 in light of its precautionary cancellation
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Next-generation concept cars unveiled at Geneva Motor Show 2019
By Guy Bird Published
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Sustainability shapes the narrative arc of Geneva Motor Show 2019
By Nargess Banks Published
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The best new cars launched at Geneva Motor Show 2018
By Nargess Banks Published
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7 showstopping concept cars at Geneva Motor Show 2018
By Guy Bird Published