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TRAIL MAKER

French artist Sophie Calle’s work spans imagined lives and actual death. Here, she talks about exhibitionism and intimacies, love and loss, and more than a century’s worth of lonely hearts ads that inspired her latest project and a 20-page portfolio for Wallpaper*

Heavy lifting

Greek architect Georges Batzios squares up to the renovation of a landmark brutalist office block in Athens

Tokyo story

Marcio Kogan draws on his travels in Japan to create new seating for Minotti

Time frame

Photographer Paolo Roversi captures the essence of Italian furniture company Poliform as it marks 50 years of high craft and creativity

Urban jungle

From vertical gardens to bamboo bridges, Vo Trong Nghia is set on greening Vietnamese architecture

Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn

The duo behind Design Emergency on what began as an Instagram Live series during the pandemic and is now becoming a wake-up call to the world and compelling evidence of the power of design to effect radical and far-reaching change. On the following pages, we meet their contributors to this special Guest Editors’ section; from illustrators to tech entrepreneurs, from Atlanta to Karachi, these are stories of design’s new purpose and promise

Omission Control

Fusing creativity and science, artist Tavares Strachan is reinserting the invisible heroes of history back into the collective memory

Hidden Treasure

A Manhattan couple’s secluded weekend house on Long Island is a serene, Scandinavian-style retreat

STILL LIFE

Sculptor Genesis Belanger meditates on mourning and loss

LAVA FLOW

Melting moments with Chilean design studio GT2P as it takes volcanic rock to new extremes

SHIFT WORK

Older brings its uniformalism to furniture design

One and only

Minimalism with a twist in a materially-mismatched south London renovation

Grain teaser

The redesign of an east London ‘forever house’ takes the long view, giving its owners frequent glimpses of greenery

FLEX APPEAL

Philippe Malouin bends the rules for a de Sede collaboration

Baroque star

Art, architecture and elaborate detailing fuse effortlessly in a technicolour dream house in Melbourne

The Show Must Go On

Models are avatars, looks are rendered in software suites and we’re all in the front row. Creative talents spearheading the industry’s digitisation ponder fashion’s post-Covid future

SECRET VIALS

The R&D of skincare and make-up is a serious, and closely guarded, science. Dior affords Wallpaper* an insider’s tour of its high-tech travails at LVMH’s Hélios centre in France’s Cosmetic Valley

Pop star

A house in the Hollywood Hills is a stand-out hit

PLACE MAKER

With a new series of images debuted here, Armani Casa marks 20 years at the heart of the well-considered home

PATH FINDER

Matthew Harris, founder of jewellery brand Mateo, on going his own way

Sharp turn

An Indian temple’s simple, open design puts its users first

DUAL PURPOSE

David Adjaye and A-Cold-Wall’s Samuel Ross on architecture, fashion, Covid-19, anti-racism, and the future of the creative industries

CLOSE KNIT

Talent and textiles come together in a new project by Kvadrat Febrik

AUTO MOTIF

Virgil Abloh gets behind the wheel to reimagine a Mercedes-Benz classic

TOOL MASTER

Humans have the upper hand at Jaeger-LeCoultre, where artisans control historic machines to give precision detailing its edge

Can We Make Fuller Use Of Ephemeral Things?

Formafantasma -The Amsterdam-based studio has set a new course exploring the environmental impact of temporary installation and exhibition design

 Who Holds The Power To Shape Our Cities?

Afterparti - Cities are unequal, and power struggles often play out in the arena of the built environment, say the London-based collective of young architecture writers. We asked them to take over the following pages to reflect on how we can make contemporary urban spaces more inclusive

Urban gardening kit

Milan studio Piuarch moves from green roofs to a multipurpose module for city dwellers, offering planting, workstation and wellness space in one

Modular sofa

Surplus fashion fabric finds new life in playful seating by Muller Van Severen and Kassl Editions

Water fountain

Artist and designer Yasmin Bawa teams with Axor to get both sculptural and functional with hempcrete