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Technically speaking: battle of the smart speakers

This time last year, we praised designers who put the ‘home’ back into ‘smart home’. Things escalated quickly. Over the last 12 months, tech designers have upped their AI game with a host of new releases, and as a result, it...

Samsung brings picture-perfect beauty to the screen with The Frame TV

MoMA spotlights France’s booming technology scene in New York

New York’s MoMA is looking across the pond for its tech inspiration, specifically to Paris. For New York Design Week, MoMA Retail has enlisted the help of La French Tech, an innovative public policy initiative that has fostered the booming...

The best design is about creating a seamless experience, says Samsung’s design chief

If good design is about creating a seamless experience, there are few who understand this better than Samsung’s executive vice president Don-Tae Lee, who spoke with Time Inc. executive editor Clay Chandler at the Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore on...

Loom large: ‘The Veil’, by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and Lesage Intérieurs

This piece currently holds the Handmade record for taking the most time to create, and is unlikely to see it broken any time soon. When we originally approached designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec with an invitation to collaborate with legendary...

Moving pictures: Samsung and Yves Béhar create an artful television concept

Korean tech giant Samsung has joined forces with Yves Béhar’s Fuseproject to develop a new model for home entertainment. Launching tonight in Paris, The Frame is a concept television with a design created to fit seamlessly into a home and...

Space invader: the Sydney Opera House launches its new digital lounge

Welcome to the Bat Cave. Danish architect Jørn Utzon and the superhero franchise seem unlikely bedfellows, but The Lounge, a newly appointed digital hub located in the refurbished western end of the foyer deep within his monolithic Sydney Opera House...

High fidelity: top-notch toys for tuned-in technofiles

For this month’s Spaces and Places issue, Wallpaper* went full Gadget Man. Whether you’re looking to plug in, switch off or zone out, we’ve got your covered with our pick of the most premium sound design products, cameras, laptops and...

Design luminaries come out to protect design patent rights

’Good design,’ said Dieter Rams, ’is as little design as possible.’ A good point well made, but one that perhaps belies the current state of affairs. Successful design is not simply about form and function; there are patents...

High office: perfectly tailored suites for our top-level execs

Sleeper hits: Wallpaper’s pick of the best bedroom interiors

Letter from Silicon Valley: inside the finest tech workspaces

You’d be hard-pressed to find a cubicle in a typical Silicon Valley office. Dropbox has Lego and a music room (complete with a grand piano), Airbnb has its green living wall and War Room, Twitter has foosball tables and yoga...