USA
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in USA - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to USA.
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Art fans will be gripped by one of the USA’s most significant jewellery collectionsA rare chance to see more than 350 pieces of artist-designed jewellery at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia
By Hannah Silver Published
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This private art collection offers a chronicle of queer life across two centuriesMuch of the work in Ron Zuckerman’s San Francisco flat was illegal in midcentury America, so was created, printed and distributed privately, only existing to this day thanks to a host of tenacious and courageous collectors
By Producer - Michael Reynolds Published
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These five design studios embody a new kind of American DreamHailing from India, Vietnam, Korea, China and Poland, these creatives represent a new generation of global creatives that consider the US a meeting point of creative minds
By Diana Budds Published
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Design studio Kawabi’s lighting gives Chinese heritage a contemporary twistChinese folklore is reinterpreted in fresh takes on the lantern by New York studio Kawabi, part of our ‘American Dreams’ series of five US studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives
By Diana Budds Published
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Step inside Dataland, the museum of AI arts, in a Frank Gehry-designed building in LADataland in Los Angeles by Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç is an immersive art experience with a difference
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Published
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Tour a reborn midcentury Pierre Koenig house in coastal CaliforniaDesigner Jamie Bush reimagined a house by the Case Study architect; the 1966 work now effortlessly blends interiors and architecture, and 'reads as one language'
By Jessica Ritz Published
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Meet Minjae Kim, the designer who makes tradition feel tantalisingly contemporarySeoul-born, New York-based Minjae Kim has developed a practice that discreetly dips into his heritage to create a new contemporary language; he is part of our ‘American Dreams’ series of five US studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives
By Reeme Idris Published
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A redwood-clad Kendrick Bangs Kellogg remodel brings 1970s organic modernism to marketThe Chapman Residence in California – a standard suburban house totally transformed by Kellogg and the artist couple who lived in it – has been listed for the first time
By Anna Solomon Published
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Enrique Olvera’s latest Los Angeles restaurant is summer’s best spot for margaritas and mariscosSan Damián dishes up Michelin-level seafood just steps from the beach in Venice. Here’s what we ate
By Carole Dixon Published
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New York was central to Keith Haring’s work. Now, it is a connection celebrated at 60 White‘Keith Haring: A World in Motion’ examines how the artist’s work served as a dialogue between New York and the rest of the world
By Hannah Silver Published
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These 5 endangered sites designed by Black architects just received critical preservation grantsConserving Black Modernism, an initiative from the Getty Foundation and The National Trust for Historic Preservation, aims to protect sites that are integral to Black history and design
By Anna Fixsen Published
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Resembling Dutch flower paintings, Dominik Tarabański’s photographs sit at the cusp of ‘synthetic and organic’The natural world is reinvented in the work of Polish-born, New York-based photographer Dominik Tarabański, part of our ‘American Dreams’ series of five US studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives
By Reeme Idris Published
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A giant coyote's head hides one of America's most unusual homesDreamt up by artist Johnny DeFeo and realised with more than 30 tonnes of concrete, this giant coyote-shaped guesthouse is one of the most extraordinary places to stay in the American Southwest
By Dan Howarth Published
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How Soft Geometry's work reflects its founders' Indian legacyBased in LA, design studio Soft-Geometry's work embodies its founders memories of home in India, at the same time 'uncovering the underlying philosophies and natural behaviours that inform subcultures.' The profile is part of our American Dreams series, exploring the work of five American design studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives.
By Aditi Sharma Published
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It’ll be all white: the first-ever production Ferrari Luce goes up for sale at RM Sotheby’sFerrari Luce Chassis 0 has been given the Ferrari Tailor Made treatment, creating this uniquely sensual white-on-white car
By Jonathan Bell Published
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14 logos that defined American graphic design historyThis summer, our Anatomy of a Logo series looks at 14 examples of how creative ingenuity combined with design and brilliant marketing to give birth to some of the world's most celebrated logos
By Jonathan Bell Published
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What could our world look like in an alternate reality? Olalekan Jeyifous has the answerThe Brooklyn-based artist and trained architect reimagines social, cultural and environmental realities to create speculative neighbourhoods with a promising future
By Diana Budds Published
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This New York artist uses real human blood to interrogate sexuality, belonging and baseball fandomIn 'Bases Loaded,' now on view at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, Jordan Eagles blends his love of the Mets with the politics of blood donation
By Osman Can Yerebakan Published
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Selldorf Architects reveal new design for the Clark Art Institute in MassachusettsThe 15,000 sq ft insertion will unify two older buildings on the campus and house the dazzling Aso O. Tavitian collection
By Anna Fixsen Published
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A Mickey Muennig house enters a new life chapter in CaliforniaNicole Hollis' clarifying renovation of a Mickey Muennig house on California's Monterey Peninsula creates a playful weekend retreat
By Shonquis Moreno Published
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Felice Flatiron brings Tuscan warmth to a neo-Gothic corner of Fifth AvenueThe family-run Italian restaurant series arrives in Flatiron with a Bonetti/Kozerski-designed dining room, ambitious wine programme and tableside tiramisu cart
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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These are the world’s best hotel pools worth planning a trip aroundFrom cliff-edge infinity pools to volcanic lagoons and desert swims, these design-led hotels make the outdoor pool the main event
By Sofia de la Cruz Last updated
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Archer Aviation wants to take you up, up and away. We talk to the American eVTOL pioneerArcher Aviation’s Midnight aircraft is currently undergoing testing. Will the Californian company be first to market in a crowded field of eVTOL contenders?
By Jonathan Bell Published
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A yoga retreat in East Hampton translates the art of wellness into architectural formBE_Design’s Woods Retreat is a blackened temple to the principles of yogic process in a spectacular woodland location
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Anatomy of a logo: behind Hollywoodland, the world’s most famous signThomas Fisk Goff and his Crescent Sign Company created the Hollywood sign in 1923. We take a look at this enduring icon of American graphic design
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Anatomy of a logo: the Nike Swoosh‘What we wanted it to stand for was speed, but now it means much more than that,’ says Nike co-founder Phil Knight of sportswear’s most enduring emblem, created by design student Carolyn Davidson in 1971 for just 35 dollars
By Jack Moss Published
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Anatomy of a logo: IBM by Paul RandFuelled by a tech nostalgia and austere futurism, we look at the story of Paul Rand's IBM logo
By Jonathan Bell Published


