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The family home in ‘Sentimental Value’ is a silent character that carries the story
From Ikea furniture and Scandinavian design icons to patterned 1930s wallpaper, Jørgen Stangebye Larsen's set for the Borg family home helps shape a story of grief, family trauma and history. Step inside…
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Formafantasma created the ‘familiar yet unsettled’ show set for Meryll Rogge’s Marni debut
Held in Milan yesterday (26 February 2026), the showspace took fragments of everyday life and subverted them ‘as if a room has been carefully disassembled and reassembled in another order’
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How Luca Guadagnino and a daring show set helped Jonathan Anderson usher in a new dawn at Dior
Fashion, film and architecture came together, says Guadagnino as he and production designer Stefano Baisi reflect on working with Anderson for his debut, S/S 2026 Dior womenswear set
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Alexander Wessely turns the Nobel Prize ceremony into a live artwork
For the first time, the Nobel Prize banquet has been reimagined as a live artwork. Swedish-Greek artist and scenographer Alexander Wessely speaks to Wallpaper* about creating a three-act meditation on light inside Stockholm City Hall
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Inside the design of Hamnet, a tale of Shakespeare’s real tragedy
Chloé Zhao’s new film Hamnet follows the tragedy and tenderness that led to Shakespeare’s seminal play, Hamlet. Production designer Fiona Crombie tells how she reimagined the Tudor-era spaces that shaped that very work
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Designing Luca Guadagnino’s ‘After the Hunt’: ‘sets like these are a gift to actors’
Production designer Stefano Baisi tells Wallpaper* about creating a multilayered visual universe that both faithfully recreates the film's Yale setting and helps enhance each character's story
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'The moodboard is DEEP': inside the set design for Bad Bunny's historic Puerto Rico residency
We speak to Adrian Martinez of Sturdy, the mind behind Bad Bunny's 2025 Puerto Rico residency to get a glimpse behind the scenes of the concert's set design
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Piers Hanmer on designing the sets for some of fashion’s most memorable images
A new book charts the era-defining work of British set designer Piers Hanmer, who was discovered by Annie Leibovitz and went on to work on some of fashion’s most inventive imagery, including spreads in Vogue, Vanity Fair and W Magazine
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‘A Single Man’ is now a ballet – we go behind the design
As ‘A Single Man’ is presented by The Royal Ballet and Factory International in London, here’s how its set designer brought protagonist George’s inner and outer worlds to life on stage
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‘As soon as I feel like somebody has worked me out, I want to switch it up’: set designer Shona Heath on staying authentic in a digital age
Shona Heath reflects on her 2024 Oscar win, being named a Royal Designer for Industry and the importance of dreaming
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Bringing the audience in: why artists are building their homes on stage
From Sabrina Carpenter to Rex Orange County, artists are reimagining their stage sets as extensions of their own homes. Lisa Wright meets set designers Stufish to find out why
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Brutalism in film: the beautiful house that forms the backdrop to The Room Next Door
The Room Next Door's production designer discusses mood-boarding and scene-setting for a moving film about friendship, fragility and the final curtain
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Jonathan Lyndon Chase on creating a ‘complicated and messy’ domestic space for Acne Studios’ latest show
A musing on ‘emotions and the body, and how they affect the space around you’: American artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase tells Mahoro Seward the story behind their Acne Studios runway set, which will backdrop the brand’s S/S 2025 show in Paris later today
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‘A gentleness in the hard truths’: behind the scenes at Slave Play
Slave Play, London is on at the Noël Coward theatre – Amah-Rose Abrams reports on a ‘hilarious, tender, confronting’ performance and its masterful mirrored set
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Hooked on Broadway, David Rockwell's standout stage sets and intimate design ethos
David Rockwell has created a host of standout stage sets for Broadway shows, with London’s V&A recently acquiring four for its theatre and performance collections
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‘Air Play Moon Safari’ is an audio-visual, retro-futuristic experience
With the ‘Air Play Moon Safari’ tour in full swing across Europe, the USA and Mexico for the rest of 2024, we explore the design of the French band's White Box stage
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‘How we make our audience go wow’: Take That on tour
Behind the scenes of the Take That tour set design. Wallpaper* speaks to the band and the architects about the flames, fountains, paper storms and twin ten-tonne kinetic staircases that we saw live at London's O2
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How Vanya’s set design went from stage to NT Live screen
As Vanya, starring Andrew Scott, hits the big screen with NT Live, set designer Rosanna Vize describes retaining the intimacy of London’s Duke of York's show
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BAFTA 2024 stage design pays tribute to the history of film animation
The 2024 BAFTA Film Awards celebrated the best of the past year’s films, with an elegant stage by Yellow Studio, which pays tribute to the history of film animation
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Artist Sophia Al-Maria on her fairytale video installation for Miu Miu’s Paris show
Qatari-American artist Sophia Al-Maria tells Wallpaper* the story behind her new video work, which backdropped Miu Miu’s S/S 2024 collection shown in Paris
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How to conquer the Atomic City: the story behind U2 at the new Las Vegas Sphere
U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere redefines the 21st-century rock concert. We spoke to the band and its team about the genesis of this expansive art and music experience that marks the opening of the high-tech venue
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Loyle Carner’s Reading Festival 2023 stage presents spatial storytelling at its finest
We talk to Loyle Carner and The Unlimited Dreams Company (UDC) about the musical artist’s stage set design for Reading Festival 2023
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Jil Sander’s A/W 2020 show is set inside a refurbished thermo-electric station
Industrially inclined for autumn, the Meiers chose a recently refurbished former thermo-electric station, filled with mismatched vintage chairs
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Sail away: Rana Begum creates fishing net installation for Roksanda
Roksanda Ilinčić and Rana Begum have collaborated on a kaleidoscopic netted runway installation for the designer’s A/W 2020 show at London Fashion Week
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Alessandro Michele goes behind the scenes of Gucci’s A/W 2020 show
Creative director Alessandro Michele invited the audience backstage for the Gucci A/W 2020 show in Milan, to explore the construction of the runway
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Soundtracking fashion with Benji B
The London-based DJ and producer on creating shape-shifting sounds for Louis Vuitton, Cerruti 1881 Paris, Bethany Williams and Celine
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How fashion is adapting to a digitised virtual future
The show must go on! As New York Fashion Week 's innovative digital platform RUNWAY360 launches, we take a look at the luxury industry's virtual progressions
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