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Art / 29 Jun 2018

A nostalgic look inside Memphis Group artist Peter Shire’s wonder-filled LA studio

‘A CD player can be put on random play. What if you had a design and a group of materials on random play, and all of them were coming out different? It would look like Memphis,’ muses Los Angeles...

Art / 29 Jun 2018

A ship-shape new home for Copenhagen Contemporary

It started as an ambitious experiment, and two years on, Copenhagen Contemporary is one of Denmark’s largest and most dynamic art spaces. While its previous waterside location on Copenhagen’s Paper Island already covered a vast 3,400 sq m, its...

Lifestyle / 25 Jun 2018

Cars, watches and Negronis: A. Lange & Söhne’s CEO Wilhelm Schmid in conversation

Wallpaper* meets A. Lange & Söhne CEO Wilhelm Schmid in what can only be described as rarefied conditions. Behind us the Fellini-ish cinerama of Lake Como, glistening in the sunshine, rows of immaculate Riva Aquarama speedboats on the wooden jetty...

Art / 22 Jun 2018

Christo on his monumental floating sculpture for Serpentine Lake

An 83-year-old Christo was late to our interview in February. He was busy traipsing across Kensington Gardens, battling sideways rain, scouting potential locations for The London Mastaba, which was officially unveiled this week in Hyde Park. The giant public sculpture...

Lifestyle / 18 Jun 2018

Counter-cool fragrance master Alessandro Gualtieri on Amsterdam, leather and ‘feeling it’

Of course, the first thing that hits you is the smell. One would hardly expect anything less from the lab of a perfumer. A potent concoction of musks, florals and glue-like, plastic notes, it erupts from the opened doorway like...

Art / 6 Jun 2018

What’s next for Azerbaijan’s flourishing art scene, plus the best Baku galleries

Having only emerged from more than 50 years of communist rule in 1991, Azerbaijan has spent the last 25 years redefining itself. Gentrification has been rapid, especially in the past decade, and in the capital city of Baku, a skyline...

Lifestyle / 5 Jun 2018

Benjamin Hubert creates ‘Trove’, an unhackable wallet for your cryptocurrency

Benjamin Hubert, designer, technologist, idea-originator, has put on yet another hat – this time in the controversial fabric of cryptocurrency. TROVE – his new prototype for an ‘unhackable wallet’ – is a physical storage system for your virtual money to...

Art / 5 Jun 2018

Photographer Athos Burez pays tribute to Flemish Masters with a fresh spin on baroque

‘I didn’t realise it was meant to become so grand’, admits Athos Burez contentedly as he lays the finishing touches on the installations for his exhibition ‘Baroque Burez’, opened at Museum aan de Stroom (or, Museum by the River) in...

Portrait of Roni Horn Art / 4 Jun 2018

Roni Horn talks remote control in her upstate New York retreat

To get to Roni Horn’s home and studio in upstate New York, you drive through farm villages, past horses grazing on meadows, and after a few turns, reach a gate leading to a rugged dirt road. Even on a balmy...

Art / 31 May 2018

Carol Bove on crushing, crashing and twisting heavy metal into better shape

On a snowy day in March, all sorts of things are happening in Carol Bove’s studio. An assistant in a white Tyvek suit is stripping down a sculpture – one of the seven lively blue forms that stood like an...

Illustration of Tiina Laakkonen's Tiina the Store Lifestyle / 10 May 2018

Hamptons tastemaker Tiina Laakkonen talks Picky Nicky through her favourite things

Six years after opening Tiina the Store in Amagansett in the Hamptons, Tiina Laakkonen is adding an extra 100 sq m of retail space. Completing just in time for the summer, the newly constructed clapperboard barn, with a raised seam zinc roof...

Art / 2 May 2018

Tom Hingston talks 20 years of cover design and upping the ante on artist ‘merch’

The British art director Tom Hingston is behind some of most innovative album artwork of the post-Peter Saville era. Over the last two decades he has worked with the Rolling Stones, Nick Cave, U2, the Chemical Brothers and Young Fathers...

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