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Neri Oxman’s guest editor pages in the October issue were designed by SPIN and include bespoke typography. The letter M, pictured in animated form above, is a combination of the natural and organic with the mechanical and structured
MAGAZINE | 9 AUGUST 2018
Our Guest Editors’ Issue explores the outer reaches of design, architecture and art
October’s Guest Editor covers
Editor’s Letter
There’s nothing like trying to get a 436-page issue done and meticulously dusted to give you a full sense of urgency. If not full-on emergency. Especially when a good chunk of those pages are being guest-edited by Neri Oxman and Tomás Saraceno, big-brained paradigm-shifters both. Also in the October issue, the Belgium artist Koen Vanmechelen runs his own silo-smashing art-meets-science project and we look at his remarkable new studio-meets-visitor centre, designed by architect Mario Botta. We also preview new projects from Jean Nouvel, Daniel Libeskind and long-time Wallpaper* favourite, 6a.We spend time, too, with a more unlikely Wallpaper* subject. Prince Charles is a complex and thoughtful man. However much some of his ideas might rankle, he was forcing sustainability onto the agenda long before it was fashionable. And, crucially, he has done things about it. He takes us for a spin in his vintage Aston Martin DB6, re-engineered to run on waste products from cheese and wine production. Of course, it’s just one car (now running better than ever, Charles insists), but it alerts us to new possibilities, smarter ways of doing things. It’s heading in the right direction. Nick Compton, Acting Editor
Introducing our Guest Editors
Neri Oxman: Designer, architect, artist, synthetic biologist and MIT Media Lab star player on hacking nature to salve the planet
Guest Editor Neri Oxman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab with Sol Lewitt’s Bars of Color within Squares, (MIT) 2007. Photography: Noah Kalina
Tomás Saraceno: Arachnid experiments, an Aerocene launch, and plans to bounce sounds off the moon from the Earth-loving artist
Tomás Saraceno on the rooftop of his studio in Lichtenberg, Berlin with an antenna that will bounce sounds off the moon, for a collaboration with experimental music composer Alvin Lucier Photography Max Creasy
Jean Nouvel goes high in Marseille, 6a Architects convert a fire station in London, we step inside Mario Botta’s Labiomista in Genk and Taiwan welcomes a new arts centre
Jean Nouvel’s new 31-storey office tower, on Marseille’s waterfront, is characterised by colourful brise-soleil. Photography: Mary Gaudin
Daniel Libeskind downsizes, Dieter Rams through the lens of Gary Hustwit and David/Nicolas goes cosmic in Paris
The ‘Skytrap Chair‘, sketched by Daniel Libeskind for Wallpaper*. The limited-edition collection is for David Gill Gallery
Prince Charles takes us for a spin, sportswear giant Fila goes back to the future and Brunello Cucinelli reigns in his happy Umbrian valley
Prince Charles steps from his 1969 Aston Martin DB6 MKH Volante in the grounds of the Highgrove Estate in Gloucestershire, he had it converted to run on cheese and wine in 2008. Photography: Sir Don McCullin
Piero Lissoni teams up with Liran Wizman to perform restoration theatre at the forthcoming Milan Edition and making pitstops at a Puglia palazzo, Santorini suite and a bar in Rome
Hotelier Liran Wizman and Piero Lissoni at the Milanese Palazzo they are transforming into an Edition Hotel. Photography: Andy Massaccesi
US artist Adam Pendleton makes marks in London, Kemang Wa Lehulere remasters the past and a Danish museum’s new moon mission
Adam Pendleton’s Ok Dada Ok Black Dada Ok (We Are), 2018, silkscreen ink and spray paint on canvas.
American art’s new ideas man in his Brooklyn studio with two of his silkscreen works. Photography: Jeremy Liebman
Domestic drama with artist Giuseppe Palmisano, patterened haute joaillerie, and a Chinese show brand takes a heel spin
Artist Giuseppe Palmisano brings fresh perspective to domestic drama with fashion by Camille Kolb. Jacket by Yves Salomon, hat by Issey Miyake, ‘Mia’ lounge chair by Francesco Bettoni for MDF Italia, from Aram
Style and substance at sea from Dutch superyachts to Riva upsizing, water-bound SUVs and BMW racing vessels
Incredible hulls in the making at Dutch superyacht shipyard Heesen in Oss. Photography: Greg White
Guest Editors’ Issue: Limited-edition cover by artist Tomás Saraceno
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