CATEGORIES

GROUND BREAKERS

The world is changing, architecture is adapting, and a new wave of young practices in London is emerging. They’re armed with bold ideas, digital tools, new studio set-ups and innovative design approaches. In our Next Generation series, we hail this nexus of exciting studios in the UK capital, the first ten of which, featured in the next pages, are just the beginning. More will be presented online throughout the year – next stop the USA

MADE IN CANADA

A show of design strength shapes up in Montreal

THE VINSON VIEW

Quality maniac Nick Vinson on the who, what, when, where and why

Stay tooned

Zimbabwean-born artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami is one to watch as she explores issues of gender, sexuality and identity through her carefully crafted, cartoon-inspired collages

Cultural reach

Hyundai Motor is supporting contemporary art to address the questions of our time

 Home and dry

Virgil Abloh furnishes us with an edit of Off-White’s latest interiors line

Colour scheme

A collaboration with artist Imi Knoebel adds a multi-tonal twist at Akris

Holy order

David Chipperfield Architects turns a 17th-century German convent into a 21st-century office complex

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

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