Wellness

Rites: flawless finds from the Wallpaper* beauty desk

Innovatively packaged, cleverly branded, sustainably produced, these beauty and grooming finds are more than skin deep

Benjamin Hubert and Airbus elevate the short haul flight experience with smart seating

The airline seat is a perennial design challenge. Shaped and dictated by economics and regulations, a seat has to seduce the passenger without making a dent in the operator’s profit or loss. Designer Benjamin Hubert, the founder of Hackney-based multi-disciplinary...

Lifestyle / 6 days ago

Meet LA’s digital members club turning household goods into greats

Known for its bold designs and affordable everyday essentials, young, LA-based digital members club Society believes that there are safer and smarter ways to live a clean, healthy and happy life. Drawing away from over the top branding, chemically-charged products...

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

Lifestyle / 8 days ago

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...

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...

Lifestyle / 23 Jan 2019

Core Kensington Pilates studio bends work-out into therapy in London

Recently opened Core Kensington aims to deliver ‘Intelligent Pilates’ – an increasingly popular system of work-out therapy. Fulfilling its mantra, it stretches into new territories of wellness, combining biomechanics, body rehabilitation and athletic performance enhancement into a bespoke experience – where...

Lifestyle / 17 Jan 2019

Working lunch: Junius reinvents al desco dining

New food-to-go company Junius is on a mission to revolutionise workplace nutrition. By partnering with forward-thinking businesses, its health-themed, desk-delivered lunch menus are designed to beat the bland, often unhealthy corporate buffet of bulky leftovers, overpriced quinoa, and limp sandwiches...

Lifestyle / 1 Jan 2019

Picky Nicky discovers the game-changing wellness of Matteo Thun’s new Swiss retreat

It’s been 15 years since the Vigilius Mountain Resort (W*64) was completed, 1,500m up Monte San Vigilio in the Alto Adige region of Italy. Here, the silence, views and, most of all, the air, scented with trees, make for...

Architecture / 20 Oct 2018

Tom Dixon creates spa at Greenwich Peninsula in London

New neighbourhoods are emerging at Greenwich Peninsula, the 150-acre development in south-east London, transforming this part of the British capital into a new vibrant mixed-use district. So, it seems fitting that this kind of pioneering placemaking should feature a key ‘first’ among its offerings...

Lifestyle / 5 Oct 2018

Susanne Kaufmann celebrates 15th anniversary with a new take on wellness

In 1994, Susanne Kaufmann became the fifth generation to own and operate the Hotel Post Bezau, established in 1850 by her great, great grandfather. It was in this picturesque valley in the Austrian Alps where she first began cultivating her...

Lifestyle / 2 Oct 2018

Myro fights plastic waste with its totally tubular deodorant alternative

Visibility, the design firm behind our 2015 fitness kit for Wallpaper* Handmade, has returned to wellness in its latest product, a refillable deodorant system for Myro that addresses the health concerns and ecological impact of the plastic industry. The New York City-based multidisciplinary studio (that also designs spaces...

Lifestyle / 1 Oct 2018

Sink into minimalism at Yoko Kitahara wellness centre in Tel Aviv

Hidden behind an unassuming gate on a small, cobbled street in the old city of Jaffa, just five minutes walk from the new John Pawson-designed hotel, The Jaffa, is the wellness centre Yoko Kitahara, named after its eponymous owner. What...