Wallpaper* Design Awards

Biomega SIN electric concept car wins Best Power Trip in Wallpaper* Design Awards

An open-wheel, fully electric vehicle with a modular carbon-fibre body and an uncluttered interior, the new SIN car brings a less-is-more approach to sustainable urban transport. It is the creation of Biomega, a cutting-edge bike specialist based in Copenhagen –...

Rick Owens wins Wallpaper* Design Award for Best Women’s Fashion Collection A/W18

Rick Owens is the sartorial pioneer that wins this year’s Wallpaper* Design Award for Best Women’s Fashion Collection (A/W18). Peruse the rest of the Judges’ Awards winners here. Rick Owens Rick Owens was preoccupied with the physical trappings of human...

Reigning Designer of the Year Philippe Malouin turns judge for 2019 Wallpaper* Design Awards

When Philippe Malouin was crowned Designer of the Year in 2018, we were impressed by how prolific the Canadian designer had been for the previous 12 months. Post-accolade, Malouin had a similarly busy year, with new projects for international brands...

Buchner Bründler’s concrete compound in Basel creates a family microcosm

Set in a tranquil, suburban location in Switzerland, on the edges of Basel’s Allschwil Forest, this house by Buchner Bründler Architects is an ode to concrete. The rough grey material forges the flat roof, the garden walls and the grid-like...

Pierre Yovanovitch wins Wallpaper* Design Award for Designer of the Year 2019

French designer Pierre Yovanovitch scoops the hotly contested Designer of the Year Wallpaper* Design Award. See the entire Judges’ Awards winners here. Pierre Yovanovitch In the odd times through which we are living, it is fitting that Pierre Yovanovitch should...

Design super-curator and Design Awards judge Paola Antonelli on Milanese style

In her role as Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, Paola Antonelli has become known for her highly analytical, anthropologic approach. As a judge for this year’s Wallpaper* Design Awards, however...

Milan wins Wallpaper* Design Award for Best City

Milan is crowned Best City by our esteemed panel of judges, beating off competition from Sharjah, Shanghai, Helsinki, and Vancouver. View the entire Judges’ Awards winners here. Milan Milan is seeing an exciting renaissance. Enlightened fashion players such as Miuccia Prada...

Introducing the February 2019 Design Awards issue

Danish superstar Bjarke Ingels joins the Wallpaper* Design Awards grand jury

New fatherhood has not slowed down the Danish architectural superstar, who signed on to judge this year’s Awards despite being on paternity leave. His practice continues to grow in international reach – recently topping out Vancouver House, a sort of...

Wallpaper* Design Awards 2019: winners announced

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...