CATEGORIES

Reality check

Artist Sarah Sze explores the shadowy spaces between physical and digital worlds

OPEN HOUSE

Dividers rule in architect Francesco Librizzi’s free-flowing Milanese apartment

Soft landing

Cashmere specialist Loro Piana debuts its first furniture designs and devotes an entire floor of its new Tokyo store to interiors

Finders keepers

Fashion designer and inveterate collector Paul Smith shares a few of his favourite things in a new book, and here with his friend and travelling companion Deyan Sudjic

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

we can be heroes

As Season Two of The Boys hits our screens, actor Erin Moriarty reflects on what it takes to be a superhero in 2020.

we rise

From princess of Wakanda to real-life Black Panther, actor Letitia Wright explains why film is more than moving images — it’s about manifesting a new reality.

talkin' ‘bout my generation

With an Ivor Novello Award for Rising Star already under her belt, singer-songwriter Griff is breathing fresh air into the world of pop.

the invisible muscle

Bright new star Victoria Pedretti is poised to thrill tens of millions again — this time with The Haunting of Bly Manor.

say it right

Kelvin Harrison, Jr. is making a change. With a Netflix film and Euphoria Season Two on the horizon, the 26-year-old actor is taking his career in a new direction — and garnering considerable acclaim.

prince of the south

There’s a fine line between dreamers who achieve their goals and dreamers who keep destiny on the back burner.

never has he ever

Not long ago, Darren Barnet was working at a West Hollywood SoulCycle, parking a mile away just to avoid a $4 fee. Today, he’s the lead of a top Netflix Original series.

living doll

Whether on RuPaul’s Drag Race or off-screen, one thing is certain: Gigi Goode has more than one trick up her sleeve.

alt renaissance

Beabadoobee is reviving Grunge for the Gen-Z masses. Her first song became a viral TikTok sensation, and now she hopes her poetic debut album Fake It Flowers will inspire a new generation of women in Rock.

On The Phone With Rupert Friend

Schön! talks to Rupert Friend about working with Wes Anderson and why variety is the spice of life.

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

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

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

HIGH ON FEELS

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