Interviews
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Forging ahead: Thomas Heatherwick updates us on the Garden Bridge
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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GDSNY's The Emerson is a love letter to New York
We speak to architect and developer Michael Kirchmann of GDSNY about his work, approach and latest completion, The Emerson at 500 W25th Street, a boutique residential building on the Highline in New York
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Byredo and filmmaker Fenn O’Meally on identity and mixed emotions
Byredo founder Ben Gorham on new fragrance launch, Mixed Emotions, and his collaboration with filmmaker Fenn O’Meally
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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The zero emission delivery vehicle elevating ecommerce
Canoo’s new MPDV (Multi-Purpose Delivery Vehicle) makes zero emission business transportation inexpensive and easy
By Jonathan Bell 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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Master & Dynamic and Away’s travel collection has us missing flights
Audio specialist Master & Dynamic and luggage brand Away offer up a capsule collection, from headphones to a daypack, with proceeds benefiting the music community impacted by the pandemic
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Transatlantic exhibition series honours artists lost to HIV/AIDS
40 years since cases of HIV/AIDS were first identified, David Zwirner gallery in New York and London pays tribute to artists whose lives were cut short by the disease, and the community who endured ostracism and stigma
By TF Chan Last updated
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Tej Chauhan’s new ceramic watch for Rado feels ‘liquid soft’
The Rado True Square by Tej Chauhan in matt yellow explores the industrial designer’s futuristic visions of pop culture
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Artist Daniel Arsham on loving cars, and eroding them
We speak to American artist Daniel Arsham about his deep-seated passion for supercars and the drive behind his exhibition of eroded automobiles in Detroit – including a Porsche930 Turbo and Ford Mustang GT
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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John Derian’s Picture Book is an eclectic, illustrative feast for the eyes
By Amy Verner Last updated
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Vodafone Smart Tech's Tom Guy on the Internet of Things
As more and more people want smart tech to offer simpler solutions to everyday problems, Vodafone Smart Tech is here to stay
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Deep dive: artist Claudia Comte on preserving marine life through art
We caught up with the Swiss artist and recent Verbier Art Summit speaker about the role of art in driving positive environmental change
By Simon Mills Last updated
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Developers Uribe Schwarzkopf are ushering in a new dynamic era for Quito
Following on from a journey to Quito in our Summer 2020 issue, we sit down with Tommy and Joseph Schwarzkopf of leading Ecuadorean developers, Uribe Schwarzkopf to discuss a city in transition
By Hugo Macdonald Last updated
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Information designer Federica Fragapane on the Covid-19 Community Vulnerability Index
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.
By Paola Antonelli Last updated
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Virgil Abloh is on the hunt for the next big thing in sustainable design
Virgil Abloh and Evian raise a glass to the next generation, announcing €50,000 grant for sustainable design initiatives, open to 18–35 year olds. Here, discover what the creative polymath hopes to see from the entries
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Bjarke Ingels gives shape to the Virgin Hyperloop
The Virgin Hyperloop – a proposed mode of passenger and freight transportation – is gaining currency, aided by design ideas from BIG. ‘It’s about the destination,' says Bjarke Ingels
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Green thumb: landscape architect Enzo Enea on bringing mysticism to Miami’s waterfront
By Daven Wu Last updated
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The much-anticipated Saatchi Yates gallery opens its doors in London
The new Saatchi Yates gallery in Mayfair promises a programme of emerging global talent. First up, Swiss artist Pascal Sender's AR-driven works. Watch the interview with the artist on our Instagram Stories here.
By Tilly Macalister-Smith Last updated
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Interview: Rindon Johnson on poetry, identity and imagined futures
In a new show at Chisenhale Gallery, London, American artist Rindon Johnson explores identity, belonging and the space between physical and virtual realities
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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La Bouche Rouge launches fully sustainable makeup collection
We speak to the maison's founder about the brand's expansion and the future of sustainable beauty
By Fiona Mahon Last updated
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Cecilia Vicuña unveils monumental Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
As Cecilia Vicuña opens her long-awaited Hyundai commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, (titled Brain Forest Quipu and on view until 16 April 2023), we revisit our recent interview with the Chilean artist, poet and activist
By Harriet Lloyd Smith Last updated
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Daragh Soden: ‘I may be gagged, bound and naked under the heel of a queen, but I am in control of the image’
Photographer Daragh Soden discusses his compelling series Ladies & Gentlemen, now on show at PhotoIreland
By Sophie Gladstone Last updated
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Pedro Reyes: ‘sculpture is a very jealous goddess’
In ‘Tlali', an exhibition at Lisson Gallery, New York, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes carves into the spirituality of stone, the complex history of the American continent and the vocabulary of pre-Columbian and Mesoamerican civilisations
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Queer photographers challenge social norms in family-making
In an exhibition at New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, eight artists of colour explore how ‘chosen families’ in LGBTQ+ communities can challenge conventions and create a spirit of queer kinship
By Alfredo Mineo Last updated
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Mark Dalton on helping people navigate a pandemic through design
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, Alice Rawsthorn talks to creative director Mark Dalton
By Alice Rawsthorn Last updated
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Becoming Bauhaus: the defining eras of Josef Albers, at Stephen Friedman
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Issey Miyake and Tadanori Yokoo’s pop-culture inspired collaboration
Tarzan, Jaws and Marilyn Monroe all feature on a series of men's blousons which ‘give a sense of hope and look to the future'
By Danielle Demetriou Last updated