Wood design

Timber trophies awarded to the best architectural projects at the UK’s Wood Awards

The UK’s annual Wood Awards, which celebrates the use of wood in architecture and design, has awarded Niall McLaughlin Architects, Studio Weave, MUMA and Ian Ritchie Architects its prestigious timber trophies. The awards, originally founded in 1971 as the Carpenters’...

A sustainable wood prefab reflects the outdoors within its minimalist interior design

Much like many current creative collaborations, it was Instagram that alerted German furniture brand Stattmann Neue Moebel to the architectural work of Atelier ordinaire in 2017. ‘We were so intrigued by the wooden houses that we had to send the owner...

King Castle: remembering Wendell Castle, as we knew him, in his upstate New York home

Art furniture pioneer Wendell Castle passed away on 20 January. The following is an article originally featured in the December 2009 issue of Wallpaper* (W*129). Hurtling past a Currier & Ives landscape, windshield-wipers working overtime, the car gladly pulls up...

Perched high above the valleys of southern Austria, the formidable basalt structure of the 17th-century Riegersburg Castle towers above a tiny mountain village. It is in a small garage in the shadow of the imposing fortress that carpenter Johann Radaschitz...

Public hanging: ’Worshipful’ wardrobe, by Paul Helbers and Smallbone

Paul Helbers likes to make daily dressing effortless. He has a fascination with everyday workwear and his eponymous label, launched in January 2016, mixes athleisure and tailored pieces in luxurious fabrics. Now our Handmade brief has allowed the Dutch designer, who...

Making waves: 80 years of Alvar Aalto’s pioneering wood bending technique

This year, Finnish design firm Artek turns 80, and the brand is celebrating in style, adding vibrant new upholstery colourways to its classic ’Domus’ chair, and relocating to a spacious new flagship in Helsinki. Longstanding collaborators Iittala have got in...

Marble masterpieces: Snedker Studio debuts new furniture collection

Found on the edge of Copenhagen’s coastline is a creative art studio consciously choosing to disregard the notion of limits as it pertains to form and material. Designer Pernille Snedker Hansen first made her mark on the industry with the...

Minimal mavens: Aesop and Snøhetta collaborate on new store in Düsseldorf

Snøhetta, the internationally renowned practice of architecture, plus landscape, interior and brand design, has collaborated with Aesop on the design of one of their Germany-based stores, located in Düsseldorf’s Grabenstraße. This is Aesop’s first store opening in Düsseldorf, and the...

Think on it: Oyler Wu creates Meditation Pods for Headspace

Meditation, everyone knows, happens in the mind, and how we furnish that ’space’ is entirely up to us. But how would that – the physical manifestation of that experience – translate into a physical environment? Architecture duo Oyler Wu has...

Back to school: Asif Khan and AHEC collaborate on new school playground

When Chisenhale primary school in East London had to grow in population without growing in size, it was faced with a problem: where would all the new children play? The task was made more challenging still given that there was no...

Up in the air

Italian artist Roberto Almagno returns to London for his second UK solo show, ‘Suspended in Space’, bringing with him a new brood of gravity-defying sculptures. Opening today at Rosenfeld Porcini gallery in Fitzrovia, the show focuses on recent sculptures, including...

Ripple effect: France’s undulating Expo pavilion leaves a mark

After Milan’s architectural expo came to a close at the end of last month, just a handful of the many grandstanding designs have managed to etch lasting impressions in our memories. One of which is France’s fluid, wooden lattice structure...