Pick up your Wallpaper* Guide to New York City
This guide to New York City is authored by our longtime former US Editor, who logged years with Wallpaper* on both sides of the pond. A New Yorker now for 13 years, Pei-Ru Keh’s well-trained eye can tell fab from fad in an instant.
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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New York art exhibitions to see in April
Read our pick of the best New York art exhibitions to see in April from Helen Frankenthaler and Anthony Caro's exhibition celebrating their friendship to Roy Lichtenstein’s scattered brushstrokes
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Loft-like and seductive, architects Bonetti/Kozerski’s new HQ prioritises collaboration
At the architects’ new office in New York, collaboration and conversation are high on the agenda
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Once a Gilded Age boarding house for ‘respectable’ young ladies, a New York landmark is reborn as a sophisticated hotel
The Twenty Two New York is the first overseas outpost of the London hotel and club of the same name. Here’s our review
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Cult Korean perfumer Nonfiction just opened the loveliest boutique on the Lower East Side
Designed by the award-winning firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero, the store is filled with antiques, scents and stories
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OMA’s New Museum expansion is not just an extension but a ‘counterpart’, says Rem Koolhaas
The extension, which was nearly a decade in the works, gives the box-like Bowery landmark a crystalline sidekick
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Famed designer Robert Stilin opens a handsomely curated salon of art and design in New York
Interior designer Robert Stilin invites clients and designers into his world within a new gallery space in NoMad
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On a high: tour this New York apartment founded on art
Gallery Studiotwentyseven owners Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska take us inside the Herzog & de Meuron-designed Tribeca Jenga Building to discover their art-filled apartment
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An era-defining insight into the Chelsea Hotel's artistic community in 1970s New York
Long thought lost, these images by artist Albert Scopin chronicle his time at Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel amidst the demi-monde of the city’s artists, musicians and eccentrics
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Go wild in the country at Vipp’s first US guesthouse
Vipp Pavilion, designed by the renowned architectural firm Johnston Marklee, is an idyllic retreat in upstate New York
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In Montauk, a century-old horse barn has been sensitively reimagined as a retreat for artists and writers
With his eponymous foundation, playwright Edward Albee wanted to ‘serve writers and visual artists from all walks of life’. Thanks to a careful restoration by TenBerke architects, Albee’s vision is entering a triumphant new chapter
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Wallpaper* wants to know: why are there suddenly so many bathing clubs in New York?
Schvitzes and banyas have been part of Gotham's cultural fabric for more than a century. But a never-ending new crop of experience-focused saunas and wellness spaces promises something else
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Inside The Eighty Six, a new jewel box restaurant that’s already celebrity-approved
With lavish interiors from Rockwell Group and a decadent menu, a historic New York boozer has been reborn in glittering fashion
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Could this Sotheby's design auction be the most valuable of all time?
The collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg, set to hit the block on 22 April, could fetch as much as $43 million
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Inside House of Santal, a new Manhattan gallery devoted exclusively to South Asian design
Amid a sea of galleries focused on American and European work, the new platform, founded by Raksha Sanikam, is highlighting talents from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and more
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Furnished with midcentury classics, this Catskills hotel is the perfect retreat for design lovers
Deep in the forests of New York State, Piaule Catskill partnered with Design Within Reach to infuse its interiors with modernist design icons, crafting a serene, nature-filled escape
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The best shows of New York Fashion Week A/W 2026
From Proenza Schouler to LII, Wallpaper* picks the highlights from the latest edition of New York Fashion Week, which took place in the city this week
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This New York apartment is a spatial puzzle, with details that satisfyingly slot into place
Surprisingly spacious, this one-bedroom New York apartment is an ode to the building’s warehouse history and perfectly precise joinery, which is satisfying to look at (and use)
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Veronica Leoni channels ‘hedonistic elegance’ at Calvin Klein – with a touch of kink
At New York Fashion Week, Veronica Leoni presented a collection that looked back to the brand’s roots in the 1970s to capture an ‘obsessive, almost dangerous search for beauty’
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A historic piano showroom has been transformed into a sparkling new US headquarters for Bonhams auction house
In New York, the historic Steinway Hall has been stitched into one of the world's skinniest residential skyscrapers. Here's a look inside
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At this seductive Brooklyn club, you can dance the night away under a canopy of plants
With a strict no-photo policy and impeccable design, Green Room is ‘supposed to be a haven for the creative class’
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For Isamu Noguchi, New York City was the ultimate playground
A new show, now on view at the Noguchi Museum in Queens, explores the artist's relationship with the city he called home
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At Atra Form's futuristic New York gallery, you're encouraged to take a nap
The temporary gallery allows visitors to experience the design studio's imaginative products – from a fur-covered sofa to a relaxation-inducing recliner
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Arthur Tress’ photographs taken in The Ramble are a key part of New York’s queer history
The images, which captured gay men, like Tress himself, cruising around the Central Park woodland in 1969, are the subject of a new book
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Jan Staller’s Manhattan Project is an abstracted chronicle of a city under construction
The photographer Jan Staller shows another side of New York’s relentless change with this portfolio of dynamic, sculptural images
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How Isamu Noguchi dissolved the boundaries between art, design and the city
Isamu Noguchi shaped cities, interiors and everyday rituals through design: here’s everything you need to know about the interdisciplinary American modernist who believed art belonged in public life
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Photographer John Arsenault’s ceramic vessels prove it’s never too late to shift focus
After years of creating portraits, the artist has revealed a series of intriguing and sexually charged ceramics in New York
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The New Museum finally has an opening date for its OMA-designed expansion
The pioneering art museum is set to open 21 March 2026. Here's what to expect
