Wallpaper* Design Awards

Interiors by Caesarstone, Studio Swine, Bloc Studios and Pietro Russo

Lifestyle / 11 Feb 2019

Virtuous victuals served on architectural table toppers win Wallpaper* Design Award

Introducing Best Stealth Health; our awardwinning tableau of wholesome bites, sweet stuff and liquid assets presented on poseworthy podiums and vessels. The table toppers To set off our spread of stealthily healthy edibles to perfection, we needed a winning tableau...

Travel / 8 Feb 2019

Noma wins Wallpaper* Design Award for Best New Restaurant

BIG and Studio David Thulstrup’s reinvention of this world-renowned Copenhagen classic triumphs as Best New Restaurant, as voted by our acclaimed jury. View the entire Judges’ Awards preview here. Noma Copenhagen, Denmark The most influential restaurant of the century so...

Perfumes by Prada Olfactories, Hermès and Couteau de Poche and Zaven’s ‘Piccoli Oggetti Possibili’ podiums

Lifestyle / 7 Feb 2019

A trio of prize perfumes on a pedestal wins Wallpaper* Design Award

When considering the perfect pedestals for our best performing perfumes, we turned to Venice-based studio Zaven’s ‘Piccoli Oggetti Possibili’ (Small Possible Objects) collection. Known as ‘POP’ for short, these bold, primary-coloured podiums play the perfect supporting role to this year’s...

Ferm Living 'Flying' shelf and Teo Yang Studio beauty products

Lifestyle / 6 Feb 2019

A cast of sharp shelves, scholastic skincare and graphic wallpaper wins Wallpaper* Design Award

When we spied Ferm Living’s new Bauhaus-style shelf, with its clever brass spheres and rod brackets, we needed something equally elegant to complement it. We found it in Paint & Paper Library’s graphic ‘Chart’ wallpaper, and in the Seoul-based interior...

Design / 5 Feb 2019

Amorepacific HQ signage by Sascha Lobe wins Wallpaper* Design Award

Korean beauty brand Amorepacific has a monumental new HQ in Seoul’s Yongsan district. Designed by David Chipperfield Architects, the glazed cube is punctuated by voids that reveal an internal courtyard. As well as offices, a restaurant, a library and more...

Lifestyle / 4 Feb 2019

La Maison Evidens de Beauté by Emmanuelle Simon wins Wallpaper* Design Award

Evidens de Beauté’s first Paris salon, devoted to the face and hair, marks a milestone for the ten-year-old beauty label and a major step for young interior architect Emmanuelle Simon. Like the brand, the space is an homage to Japan...

Isay Weinfeld at The Four Seasons Restaurant Bar Room

Travel / 3 Feb 2019

The Four Seasons Restaurant by Isay Weinfeld wins Wallpaper* Design Award

Two years after the legendary Philip Johnson-designed Four Seasons restaurant closed its doors at the Seagram Building, the iconic eatery has finally reopened at impressive new premises designed by the Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld and has just won Best Reinvention...

Massive Attack Mezzanine DNA Matt Black spray paint

Art / 1 Feb 2019

Mezzanine DNA Matt Black spray paint by Massive Attack wins Wallpaper* Design Award

It’s 20 years since Massive Attack released the groundbreaking Mezzanine. Still restless and forward-facing, founding member Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja has decided to can the landmark album by way of celebration. Working with scientists in Switzerland, he has encoded the...

Chanel Rouge Allure Liquid Powder in Invincible

Lifestyle / 31 Jan 2019

Rouge Allure Liquid Powder by Chanel wins Wallpaper* Design Award

Blurred, smudged, fuzzed, slept-in, make-out mouth, bedhead lips – all descriptions of the lip look that has dominated the catwalks this year. Championed by the likes of Pat McGrath and MAC’s Terry Barber, it relies on a weightless matt textured...

Architecture / 27 Jan 2019

Coppin Dockray’s renovation of Jørn Utzon’s Ahm House wins Wallpaper* Design Award

Danish structural engineer Povl Ahm worked on some extraordinary projects in his lifetime. After joining the London office of Ove Arup & Partners in 1952, he collaborated on Coventry Cathedral with Basil Spence and St Catherine’s College in Oxford with...

Design / 26 Jan 2019

‘Broken Nature’, curated by Paola Antonelli wins Wallpaper* Design Award

One post explained why nylon stockings were redesigned in the 1930s to make them likelier to ladder. Another described how, 50 years later, Microsoft ensured that its Windows 2.0 software needed to be updated every 18 months. Then there...

Architecture / 25 Jan 2019

National Museum of Qatar by Ateliers Jean Nouvel wins Wallpaper* Design Award

Ten years in the making, the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) by Ateliers Jean Nouvel is intended as an important new display case for the country’s history, archaeology and contemporary culture. The massive structure houses 11 interlinked galleries, with visitors...