Wallpaper* Design Awards

Wallpaper* toasts the 2018 Design Awards with Veuve Clicquot at Duddell’s in London

This year, one of London’s hottest new restaurants Duddell’s took the Wallpaper* Design Award for Best Holy Order for its dramatic interiors by Michaelis Boyd. So it was only fitting that we host our equally grand Design Awards celebration at this...

Design Awards 2018: best of the rest

Each year, we celebrate an explosion of glittering creative talents for the Wallpaper* Design Awards. What follows is a visual feast of the hottest design, architecture and fashion high-fliers for 2018, from see-through seating to wellness labs and chocolate faucets.  As originally featured...

Best in shows: our standouts of the spring/summer 2018 collections

Photography: Melaine + Ramon. Fashion: Isabelle Kountoure and Jérôme André. Writer: Laura Hawkins

Cold snap: chill out in Woolrich’s Extreme Weather Experience Room

We’ve awarded Woolrich the Best Big Chill award in this year’s Wallpaper* Design Awards (W*227). The American outerwear brand’s new 700 sq m flagship store on Milan’s Corso Venezia features an immersive Extreme Weather Experience Room, where customers can try...

Heavenly staircases, chocolate faucets and more in our Design Awards 2018 issue

Welcome to our annual Awards issue, where we honour the year’s highest achievements in design, architecture, fashion and beyond. This is our round-up of the best products and brightest talents that have raised our pulse and kept our pecker up...

Design Awards 2018: we take flight and make our cut of the best in class

Farshid Moussavi reveals what inspired her picks for the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018

When we pay a visit to the architect Farshid Moussavi in her temporary-ish offices in the City of London, she is wearing a pink Commes des Garçons top with what might be described as architectural interventions at the elbow. She...

René and Nadine Redzepi on judging the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018

Even by the standards of the culinary elite, 2017 has been an adventurous year for René and Nadine Redzepi. A seven-week pop-up in Tulum, underneath the verdant fronds of the Yucatán Jungle, raised Noma’s profile to new heights. Thereafter René...

Leading light: Daan Roosegaarde reflects on judging the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018

The Dutch, given their tenuous topography, have a special relationship with nature. As Daan Roosegaarde points out: ‘Who lives below sea level? We must be a little crazy for that.’ The nation lives with the constant threat from water, but...

Master minimalist Jasper Morrison pulls up a chair to the Design Awards 2018 judging panel

This year saw Jasper Morrison launch the new menswear label Jijibaba, a tatami-inspired sandal for Camper and his first-ever eyewear collection for Japanese brand Jins. ‘I spent my life thinking of things to sit on, so it’s good to turn...

Model and campaigner Liya Kebede on judging the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2018

The Ethiopian-born model Liya Kebede is not only an enduring force in the fashion industry, but also one to reckon with in the philanthropic world. As founder and creative director of Lemlem, which collaborates with African weavers to create fashion...

Design Awards 2018 preview: meet our Judges’ Awards jury and sneak a peek at the shortlist