Wallpaper* Design Awards
The Wallpaper* Design Awards is our annual celebration of the very best of the best
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Wallpaper* Design Awards: Willo Perron is Designer of the Year 2026
The mastermind behind some of the world’s most spectacular cultural moments, Willo Perron has been capturing the creative zeitgeist for 20 years. We interview the designer, honoured in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026
By Laura May Todd Published
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See the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026 unfold in the February issue, on sale now
Discover the standout stars of design, architecture, art, fashion, travel and tech, honoured by a flat-packed Formafantasma trophy, in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026 issue, on newsstands
By Bill Prince Published
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The Wallpaper* Design Awards are back in 2026 – see who's shortlisted
Our annual design awards returns in January – here are the first shortlisted nominees
By Léa Teuscher Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026: Life-enhancer of the year shortlist
Discover the shortlist for Life-Enhancer of the Year in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026, from an innovative night light to a blueprint for play
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026: City of the Year shortlist
Explore the nominated urban locations making an impact in design, architecture and contemporary culture
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026: Launch of the year shortlist
Discover the shortlist for Launch of the Year in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026, from an innovative museum concept to a glass-like hydrating face mask
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2026: Designer of the Year shortlist
Meet the Wallpaper* Designers of the Year nominees: bringing calm, consideration and integrity to the year's key design moments
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: the make-up collections defining contemporary beauty
The beauty winners of the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025, selected by beauty editor Hannah Tindle, include playful and eclectic make-up collections by Hermès, Celine, Dior, Chanel and Prada
By Hannah Tindle Published
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The Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 winners are…
Find every Wallpaper* Design Award 2025 winner here, and in the February print issue, spanning art, architecture, beauty, design & interiors, fashion, tech, travel and watches & jewellery. Watch the Wallpaper* editors talk about the judging process and the themes that unite this year's winners
By Bridget Downing Published
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This Flexform armchair, inspired by the uplifted lapels of a jacket, is a calculation in comfort
The ‘Eri’ armchair by Fumie Shibata for Flexform wins 'Best Comfort Zone' in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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Architect Sou Fujimoto explains how the ‘idea of the forest’ is central to everything
Sou Fujimoto has been masterminding the upcoming Expo 2025 Osaka for the past five years, as the site’s design producer. To mark the 2025 Wallpaper* Design Awards, the Japanese architect talks to us about 2024, the year ahead, and materiality, nature, diversity and technological advances
By Sou Fujimoto Published
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Florim’s new ceramic surface collection is an ode to tactility
A primal pleasure, Matteo Thun and Benedetto Fasciana’s SensiTerre collection of ceramic flooring and cladding surfaces for Florim is a Wallpaper* Design Award winner
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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Isabel + Helen on bringing the Wallpaper* Design Awards to life
Step behind the scenes of the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 cover. Designed by Isabel + Helen, it is a welcome reminder that we still have magic in our own minds and hands
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Formafantasma revisits the masculine codes of modernist design
Formafantasma wins a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025, for its Milan exhibition ‘La Casa Dentro’, which took to task the inherent masculinity and conservatism at the heart of modernism
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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Lesley Lokko reviews 2024's wins, shifts, tensions and opportunities for 2025
Lesley Lokko, the British-Ghanaian architect, educator, curator, and founder and director of the African Futures Institute (AFI), has been an inspirational presence in architecture in 2024; which makes her perfectly placed to discuss the year, marking the 2025 Wallpaper* Design Awards
By Lesley Lokko Published
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Is this the future of fine dining? Culinary creative studio We Are Ona offers food for thought
The Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 honour culinary creative studio We Are Ona, whose avant-garde pop-ups are turning the fine dining experience into an art form
By Mary Cleary Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Es Devlin reflects on the past and imagines the future
British artist and stage designer Es Devlin works across mediums, celebrating public participation in exhibitions, large-scale performances and immersive installations that frequently combine music, language and light. Interviewed by Hannah Silver
By Hannah Silver Published
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A next-generation Milanese members’ club wins Wallpaper* Design Award 2025
The Wilde wins our Best Social Hub award for its embodiment of the cosmopolitan Milanese spirit
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Jaguar’s big rethink earns its Type 00 concept car a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025
We salute the forward-thinking and bold choices of the dramatic Jaguar Type 00 Concept, a preview of next year's all-new electric GT
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: JB Blunk rings are sculptures for the hand
The JB Blunk Estate has partnered with J Hannah on the reproduction of four special rings
By Hannah Silver Published
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Sleep happily ever after on Carl Hansen & Søn’s reissue of a Kaare Klint bed
Carl Hansen & Søn’s ‘Spherical’ bed is a worthy Wallpaper* Design Award 2025 winner, celebrating both the past and the future in one fell swoop
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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Tour Marche Arboretum, a new 'museum' of plants in Belgium
Marche Arboretum is a joyful new green space in Belgium, dedicated to nature and science – and a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025 winner
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Loewe’s beaded vegetables are our best in show
At Loewe, Jonathan Anderson’s extraordinary caviar-beaded vegetables won ‘Best Produce’ as part of the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025
By Jack Moss Published
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Discover Interni Venosta, the new furniture label where craft and beauty speak for themselves
Interni Venosta, the new furniture label of Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran, is a perfectly pitched celebration of craft, quality and nostalgia- winning a Wallpaper* Design Award
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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London’s first all-suite hotel, The Emory, wins Wallpaper* Design Award 2025
The Emory earns our Best Suites award for flawlessly embodying the creative aesthetic of a host of world-class designers
By Lauren Ho Published
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Inside Stone Island’s extraordinary laboratory for innovation in Ravarino, Italy
As part of the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025, we pay homage to Stone Island’s enduring legacy of material innovation and rigorous experimentation with a visit to its cutting-edge Italian HQ
By Stuart Brumfitt Published
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Rotterdam’s urban rethink makes it the city of 2025
We travel to Rotterdam, honoured in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025, and look at the urban action the Dutch city is taking to future-proof its environment for people and nature
By Ellie Stathaki Published


