Wallpaper - November 2024

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THE ART ISSUE - Elmgreen & Dragset confront the classical canon.

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Role Models - Elmgreen & Dragset's subversive take on the classical form at Paris' Musée d'Orsay explores contemporary masculinities in a heteronormative world

As Elmgreen & Dragset, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset bring a smart subversion to their large-scale installations. Over the last three decades, they have taken a sideways look at social and political systems by recontextualising mainstream motifs: works have included a full-scale replica of a Prada boutique in the Texan desert and a vast, vertical swimming pool, now installed in Hong Kong.

5 mins

Blonde Ambition - A new iteration of Gucci's beloved 'Blondie' bag fuses effortless Seventies insouciance with crisp modernity

Recently reimagined by creative director Sabato De Sarno as part of his Cruise 2025 collection, Gucci’s ‘Blondie’ bag, first launched in 1971, centres around a rounded version of the brand’s historic interlocking-G symbol. Now one of fashion’s most recognisable motifs, it remains on De Sarno’s interpretation, which is designed to recall the original’s effortless insouciance and the heady, liberated spirit of the 1970s.

1 min

Waking Moments - Design makes a welcome return to the Dakar Biennale, sounding out a clarion call to Africa's new creative generation

After a 20-year hiatus, design returns to the Dakar Biennale this year and, for curator Ousmane Mbaye, it comes at a pivotal time. ‘My curatorial practice is based on three aspects,’ he says. ‘A desire to do a design inventory in Africa; to record the materials being used; and to present the current generation of designers in Africa and its diaspora, and see their visions realised.’

3 mins

Artistic licence

Remy Savage shakes up the world of cocktail-making at his Bauhaus-inspired bar enterprise in east London

3 mins

METAL WINNERS

Chanel shows its sporting colours with a new high jewellery collection inspired by its founder's athletic aesthetic

1 min

GOLDEN TOUCH

Real estate venture Ray's Seagram Building HQ in New York is a homage to corporate modernism

3 mins

WATCH THIS SPACE

A new book takes a deep dive into the history of an innovative Rolex timepiece

1 min

STEP CHANGE

It's a gloomy day in April and the designer Jony Ive is in Milan.

4 mins

Pas de Deux - Choreographer Wayne McGregor on turning a post-apocalyptic trilogy by Margaret Atwood into a three-act ballet in collaboration with composer Max Richter

Wayne McGregor is the master of creative collaborations. As resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet, a position he has held since 2006, he has translated an eclectic roster of literary, avant-garde and contemporary references into works for the stage, as well as taken the helm on film, TV, fashion and music videos projects, and founded his own London-based studio.

5 mins

MIAMI VOICE

Artist Rachel Feinstein articulates the collision of extremes that define her hometown in a major new exhibition

2 mins

Cloud pleaser

Blue-sky thinking elevates a purpose-built gallery for the Froehlich Foundation's art collection near Stuttgar

2 mins

LINES OF BEAUTY

Massimo Giorgetti's new rug collection for CC-Tapis takes Milan's 1960s metro system as a departure point

3 mins

Commercial artists

We conjure up public spaces that look and feel good, taking our design cues from the domestic landscape

2 mins

DREAM TEAM

A rewatching of a seminal film laid the foundation for JW Anderson's latest collection, a fantastical collaboration with artist Christiane Kubrick

4 mins

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