Sustainable design
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Cooking Sections champions regenerative eating at the Serpentine’s The Magazine restaurant
London-based artist duo Cooking Sections has created a menu of three dishes for The Magazine restaurant at Serpentine North, as part of the museum’s ‘Back to Earth’ programme featuring artistic responses to the climate emergency
By Sheila Lam • Last updated
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Apple makes ‘2030 carbon neutral’ pledge
Apple has pledged that it will become carbon netural by 2030. We take a closer look at the steps the brand is taking to evolve its sustainability practices
By Tilly Macalister-Smith • Last updated
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Kettal and Tectum’s indoor hydroponic garden combats cabin fever with office-grown veg
Kettal and Tectum Garden’s hydroponic indoor garden offers new opportunities for home-grown veg and adds a sprinkle of greenery to office spaces
By Martha Elliott • Last updated
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Vegan make-up brands for plant-based beauty
Build a vegan make-up bag with these products for all your beauty needs
By Mary Cleary • Last updated
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Glass tiles by Studio Plastique, Snøhetta and Fornace Brioni win Best Domestic Design: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022
Recycled glass tiles by Studio Plastique, Snøhetta and Fornace Brioni win Best Domestic Design in our Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022 – meet the winners and explore the shortlist
By Léa Teuscher • Last updated
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Louis Vuitton announces decade long project to rewild London's Chelsea
Central London’s first ‘Heritage Forest' on Pont Street in Chelsea, will be the result of a rewilding partnership between Louis Vuitton, Cadogan and SUGi
By Laura Hawkins • Last updated
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Terra Carta Design Lab announces finalists
HRH Prince Charles and Jony Ive, in collaboration with the Royal College of Art, announce the 20 finalists of the Terra Carta Design Lab
By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated
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Sustainable furniture: responsible chairs made from recycled materials
Designers such as Tom Dixon, Nendo and Konstantin Grcic have upped their sustainability efforts, with ongoing R&D resulting in sustainable furniture collections, including garden furniture, that merge good design with a responsible approach
By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated
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Jony Ive’s LoveFrom unveils Terra Carta Seal design
Designed by Jony Ive to celebrate nature, with an intricate composition of flora and fauna, the Terra Carta Seal represents the charter’s values and will be bestowed upon private sector companies that distinguish themselves for their sustainability efforts
By Sarah Douglas • Last updated
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Francisco Costa on using fermentation to synthetically produce natural ingredients
The founder of pioneering brand Costa Brazil talks to Wallpaper* about how he’s complementing fair-trade practices with cutting-edge biotechnology
By Mary Cleary • Last updated
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Cooking Sections: visualising a responsible food industry
Turner Prize-nominated Cooking Sections explore how we can create and consume food more sustainably. Priya Khanchandani, head of curatorial at London’s Design Museum, talks to founders Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe about the politics of food, and fixing broken structures of consumption.
By Priya Khanchandani • Last updated
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Tjep reveals pioneering local marketplace design in rural Bangladesh village
By Luke Halls • Last updated
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The art of reinvention: how cities and architects unite to combat climate change
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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3D-printed portable toilet ‘The Throne’ offers a snazzier place to answer nature’s call
3D-printed from upcycled single-use medical plastic, ‘The Throne’ by To.org and Nagami reinvents the portable toilet and brings an ‘unsexy conversation’ about sanitation to the forefront
By TF Chan • Last updated
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Surplus fashion fabric finds new life in playful seating
Muller Van Severen and Kassl Editions team up on this Re-Use initiative for Wallpaper* Re-Made
By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated
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Padded value: these puffer jackets have sustainable style
A host of brands are bringing padded value to outerwear, with puffer jackets formed from natural materials and upcycled fabrics
By Laura Hawkins • Last updated
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Kunlé Adeyemi on climate change, architecture and the power of water
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 architect Kunlé Adeyemi
By Paola Antonelli • Last updated
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Copper feel: Lumière Bricoleur turns scrap metal into sculptural lamps
The duo’s first collection, mostly rendered in copper, is sourced on Copenhagen's streets and scrapyards
By Harriet Lloyd Smith • Last updated
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Post consumer waste design: Jane Atfield’s groundbreaking recycled chair turns 30
New York gallerist Emma Scully revisits the groundbreaking design of Jane Atfield's RCP2 recycled plastic chair, on the 30th anniversary of its creation
By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated
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Electric boat builder X Shore takes sustainability onboard
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Poland’s modernist resort city Gdynia gets experimental with sustainability
By Clare Dowdy • Last updated
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Marble tables inspired by the spirit of reduced food waste
Design For Soul is a series of tables designed by Piero Lissoni in collaboration with Salvatori and Massimo Bottura’s non-profit organisation Food For Soul
By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated
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Charlotte Klinge: Wallpaper* Next Generation 2021
Our Next Generation 2021 showcase shines a light on 21 outstanding graduates from around the globe, Wallpaper’s pick of the best new talent in seven creative fields. Here, we profile Massey University graduate Charlotte Klinge.
By Jacqui Scalamera • Last updated
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Wellness brand Haeckels plants the seeds of change with zero-impact packaging
By Emma Moore • Last updated
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New linen brand Baea gives us more reasons to stay in bed
Founded by Hong Kong-based Adah Chan, new linen brand Baea brings the sense of nature inside
By Catherine Shaw • Last updated
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Formafantasma’s minimalist, responsible shelving system for Hem
Formafantasma and Hem unveil the ‘T Shelf’, a design in extruded aluminium created in collaboration with specialist Hydro
By Anne Soward • Last updated
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Mizzi Studio envisions a contemporary take on Malta’s recently retired art deco bus
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated