The Wallpaper* guide to our home town of London is authored by our art, culture and luxury editor, Hannah Silver, who is at home in Mayfair’s old school opulence as she is in the grungy art scene out east.
The aim of the Wallpaper* Travel Guides isn’t to cater to everyone. Instead, we home in on what makes a place truly special to us, from a design-led aesthetic to exceptional service and reassuring quality.
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Five things to see at London Craft Week 2026What an emphasis on keeping heritage crafts alive, London Craft Week 2026 (11-17 May) offers a city-wide programme of exhibitions to discover artisanal excellence from established and emerging makers
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Legendary London bookshop Claire de Rouen opens a new Shoreditch spaceInside the new outpost, designed as a hub for London's established and emerging artists to find inspiration and share ideas.
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East Tokyo comes to east London at this hot new restaurantAt Mitsu, smoky Japanese flavours meet karaoke, DJ sets and late-night dancing
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This new London hotel offers everything from a biohacking lounge to a fermentation labThe first UK outpost of pioneering wellness hotel brand Six Senses opens for business and pleasure in a former London department store with a storied past
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Koko marks 125 years with new recording studio and members’ balconyThe London venue celebrates a big anniversary with two new spaces
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As Barnaby Barford shows new work in London, we look back to his takeover of the Wallpaper* fashion pagesBarnaby Barford is presenting a new exhibition at David Gill gallery. To mark the occasion, we revisit the fashionably dressed figurines he made for us almost two decades ago
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Step inside the Sarabande Foundation’s intriguing new Tottenham studiosThe Sarabande Foundation’s new Tottenham studios, café and gallery are set to be a thriving community hub
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London's best tasting menusLondon’s tasting menus have evolved far beyond classical fine dining, with chefs drawing on global influences, hyper-seasonal produce and deeply personal narratives to create some of the most ambitious meals in the city
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Emerging artist Charlie Gosling is being compared to Frank Auerbach. Discover his haunting portraits in LondonAt London's Incubator gallery, 'Good Luck with Me Here,' unites a new body of work from London-born Charlie Gosling
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The new London restaurants to book nowThis month, Awadhi cuisine takes centre stage, a neighbourhood seafood bar scales up, and a beloved chef delivers yet another hit
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Out of office: What the Wallpaper* editors are looking forward to in MayOur editors highlight what’s new, noteworthy and not-to-be-missed in design, culture and beyond this month
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London Festival of Architecture 2026: everything you need to knowThe UK’s biggest architecture festival is almost upon us, launching in June across the capital; here is our guide for everything you need to know, where to look, what to book, and where to go
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Cece’s opens in Notting Hill with a cinematic take on Italian diningPublic House’s most theatrical London restaurant yet pairs a transportive dining room with delightful Italian cooking
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Artists’ skewing of the financial crisis takes a satirical turn at London’s ICAA new group exhibition, ‘Genuine Fake Premium Economy’, considers the implications of the 2008 financial crisis
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This new London café traces the tension and harmony between Iranian and Iraqi cookingFounders Ziad Halub and Farsin Rabiee discuss memory, seasonality, and heritage at Logma, their popular Iranian-Iraqi concept in Hackney
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London art exhibitions to see in MayRead our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from Photo London's new location to Nengi Omuku at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
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London music photographers Eddie Otchere and Normski were early documenters of UK hip hop. Here’s the story behind the imagesThey captured a rare, raucous chronicle of hip-hop’s golden age and the UK underground at its inception. Now, for the first time together, and as they both have work on show at the V&A East, they share their stories
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This robot is making On’s spray-on marathon sneaker, its fastest-ever distance shoeAhead of the London Marathon this Sunday (26 April 2026), Swiss sportswear brand On’s pioneering LightSpray robot arrives in the British capital for the first time. Scott Maguire, On’s president and COO, gives Wallpaper* a tour
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Check into Louis Vuitton’s playful hotel concept in LondonAn epic pop-up in Mayfair brings together a café, bar, exhibition and shop to mark 130 years of Louis Vuitton’s Monogram
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The Dream Of is the east London space offering alternative healing therapies to the city’s creativesWith clients that include Isamaya Ffrench and Yasmin Sewell, The Dream Of is proving to be beauty experts’ choice for everything from Reiki to cacao ceremonies. We paid a visit to try a treatment
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A new London mews house conjures up a spacious interior from a tiny plotPaper House Project’s Greenview House in Hackney transforms an unpromising site into a neatly defined, low-energy home with a dynamic, interlocking vertical plan
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Phoebe Boswell’s ‘Art on the Underground’ dives into why the majority of Black British adults don’t swimAt London’s Notting Hill Gate and Bethnal Green Underground stations, Phoebe Boswell explores a complex relationship with water
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Explore 50 of London's brutalist landmarks with this handy new guidebookIn the pages of 'Brutalist London', London’s most memorable concrete buildings are laid bare
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This remodelled London terrace house fuses moody interiors with Japanese simplicityHeion House by Studio Hagen Hall is a London terrace house reimagined through warm woods and contemporary minimalism
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This modern Egyptian restaurant is London’s fieriest opening of the yearChef Meedu Saad goes solo with Impala, a charcoal grill restaurant and love letter to North African flavours that has already conquered Soho
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For its inaugural exhibition, the V&A East traces 125 years of Black British music‘The Music is Black’ at V&A East Museum, opening on 18 April, is an intimate exploration into Black British music culture
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A new book marks 75 years of the Royal Festival Hall, London's iconic ‘egg in a box’‘Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon’ tells the story of one of London's best-loved buildings – designed not for the privileged few, but for everyone
