Interviews
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Thomas Demand: artificiality, nature and Azzedine Alaïa
At Sprüth Magers London, German sculptor and photographer Thomas Demand explores the tensions between artificiality and nature, and steps inside the atelier of legendary Tunisian couturier Azzedine Alaïa
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Through the lens of Chieska Fortune Smith
Through the lens is our monthly series that shines a light on a photographer and Wallpaper* contributor
By Sophie Gladstone Last updated
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Leading female architects in their own words
International Women’s Day 2022 and Women’s History Month: Wallpaper* talks to four leading female architects about dreams, heroines and navigating the architecture world
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Luxury vodka brand X Muse: refined by art, aquifers and amethysts
Blended-barley vodka brand X Muse is an adventure with art and alchemy, created by Jupiter Artland co-founder Robert Wilson and alcohol expert Vadim Grigoryan, as featured in the October 2021 25th Anniversary Issue of Wallpaper*, on sale from 9 September
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Through the lens of photographer Joanna Wzorek
‘Through the lens’ is our monthly series that throws the spotlight on photographers who are Wallpaper* contributors. Here, we explore the vision of London-based Joanna Wzorek
By Sophie Gladstone Last updated
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Low-tech to high art: Isabel + Helen ‘In Orbit’ at Saatchi Gallery
Down-to-earth creators with unearthly ideas: London-based creative duo Isabel + Helen present a new series of hypnotic paintings created using hand-assembled contraptions
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Amanda Levete
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week, it’s London-based architect Amanda Levete, who founded her award winning practice AL_A in 2009 with co-directors Ho-Yin Ng, Alice Dietsch and Maximiliano Arrocet.
By Bodil Blain Last updated
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Laurent Grasso confronts our post-Anthropocene world on film in Shanghai
The French artist’s, Artificialis, recently dominated the nave of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Now, as the Centre Pompidou takes the project to Shanghai's West Bund Museum, we revisit our interview with the artist from December 2020
By TF Chan Last updated
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Anri Sala's subterranean installation is out of this world
Albanian artist Anri Sala's hypnotic film and sound installation, Time No Longer, in Houston's Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, pays homage to African American astronaut and saxophonist Ronald McNair
By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated
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Barozzi Veiga create contrasting monochrome apartments
Barcelona-based architecture duo Barozzi Veiga have created a dark and moody, and a light and bright design, respectively, for their own homes
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Kjetil Trædal Thorsen
Snøhetta founding partner Kjetil Trædal Thorsen discusses collective creativity, the art of prepositions, and the psychology of architecture with Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafe
By Bodil Blain Last updated
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Photographers on the defining events of our time
‘The Horizon is Moving Nearer’, at the Portuguese Centre of Photography, uses different forms of media to evalute key issues of the age
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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King Houndekpinkou: space-age meets tradition in ceramic art
Paris-based artist King Houndekpinkou’s other-worldly ceramic art creations fuse ancestral pottery traditions with space-age video games.
By Minako Norimatsu Last updated
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Curator Aindrea Emelife’s ‘Bold Black British’ takeover of Christie’s
At Christie’s London, ‘Bold Black British’ (1 – 21 October) is a meeting point of artists working across disciplines and generations. We speak to curator Aindrea Emelife about spotlighting the Black Britons shaping the creative landscape
By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated
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Emily Mullin on creating ceramic sculptures with her husband
Teaming up with her husband for a new show ‘Get a Room’, ceramic artist and sculptor Emily Mullin celebrates collage, collaboration and the beauty of imperfection
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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David Carson’s experimental typographic collage for The Macallan whisky
American graphic designer, art director and surfer David Carson unveils striking hand-crafted collage design for The Macallan Concept No. 3 whisky
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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The Brant Foundation tells a fairytale of New York
‘Third Dimension’ at The Brant Foundation’s East Village location reads like a love letter to the contemporary art of New York City– which recently won the Wallpaper* Design Award for Best City 2020
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Babak Ganjei: ‘If Instagram went down I don’t know if I’d exist’
Babak Ganjei’s text-based artwork, currently showcased at Browns East in London, combines sharp observational comedy with endearing honesty
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Through the lens of Wallpaper* contributor Gabby Laurent
‘Through the lens’ is our monthly series that throws the spotlight on photographers who are Wallpaper* contributors. Here we explore Gabby Laurent's vision further
By Sophie Gladstone Last updated
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Chiharu Shiota’s ‘labyrinth within a labyrinth’ at Copenhagen’s Cisternerne
Chiharu Shiota has become the latest artist to take over the arched depths of Copenhagen’s Cisternerne. Titled Multiple Realities, her installation is a poetic landscape of web-like yarn, both serene and unsettling
By Minako Norimatsu Last updated
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Xiaopeng Yuan: ‘Hiding behind a camera is like hiding inside a stage curtain’
‘Through the lens’ is our monthly series that throws the spotlight on photographers who are Wallpaper* contributors. Here, Xiaopeng Yuan talks about his vision, process, and shoots that make his heart beat faster
By Sophie Gladstone Last updated
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Kader Attia dissects multiculturalism, colonialism and capitalism in Doha show
Kader Attia addresses postcolonial trauma and the need for psychiatric repair in a new show, ‘On Silence', at Doha's Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art
By TF Chan Last updated
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Retail maverick Andrea Brugnoni on what’s next for his Sardinian cultural district
By Ali Morris Last updated
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Nike GO FlyEase breaks free from convention
We go toe-to-toe with Nike's Kathy Gomez in an interview that discusses the new GO FlyEase technology
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Formafantasma on GEO-Design and design education
Design Emergency began as an Instagram Live series during the Covid-19 pandemic and is now becoming a wake-up call to the world, and compelling evidence of the power of design to effect radical and far-reaching change. Co-founders Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn took over the October 2020 issue of Wallpaper* – available to download free here – to present stories of design’s new purpose and promise. Here, Paola Antonelli talks to designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Studio Formafantasma
By Paola Antonelli Last updated
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Yves Béhar and Dr Harvey Karp are rocking World Sleep Day
Created by paediatrician Dr Harvey Karp, and given a pared-back design by Yves Béhar, Snoo is a baby sleep solution we can all rest easy with
By Tilly Macalister-Smith Last updated
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What lies on the road ahead for Daimler and autonomous driving
By Jonathan Bell Last updated