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Sir Nicholas Grimshaw at the Royal Academy, London

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:12:32 GMT

What with the heady range of iconic projects lining his portfolio ï¿½ from the Eden projectï¿½s low-lying domes, to the Grand Union Walk housing pods and the snaking former International Terminal at Waterloo Station ï¿½ Sir Nicholas Grimshaw has a busy practice on his hands. See more of the exhibition President of the Royal Academy of Arts since 2004, Sir Grimshaw is undoubtedly…

Stephen Floyd exhibition, NYC

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:42:51 GMT

Irreverent, witty and a little smut-riddled, Stephen Floydï¿½s artistic agenda stands somewhere between hard-hitting, high-art irony and low-fi birthday card cartoonistry. See more of the Stephen Floyd exhibition Entitled I Love America and America Loves Me, Floydï¿½s latest exhibition at the Heist Gallery, New York, takes the contemporary pop agenda as its own. Channelling…

The W* House

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We thought it only fair to throw open the doors to The W* House and share with you our wealth of experience in the design world.…

Tokyo Designers Week 2009

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:46:13 GMT

The first few days of November saw the whole of Tokyo come down with design fever. The big names in design jetted in to exhibit or visit from October 30th to November 3rd, which meant five days of non-stop exhibitions, gatherings and, of course, champagne-fuelled after-parties. See our highlights from Tokyo Designers Week Flagship show 100% Design ï¿½ a sprawling fairground-like…

Interactive floorplan: Cabbagetown, Toronto

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:39:26 GMT

Dubbeldam Design Architects (DDA) is a young Canadian practice, founded by Heather Dubbeldam in 2002. Working on a range of scales, from architecture, landscape design and interiors through to lighting and furniture, DDAï¿½s design-focused approach favours sustainability and advocates for the use of recycled or renewable materials. Take a look at the Cabbagetown Residence,…

Fab 40: Germany, Scandinavia and Spain

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The November issue of Wallpaper* gives you 40 fabulous reasons to stay exactly where you are in 10 territories around the globe. Or 360 reasons to pack your bags and head elsewhere. For the full crop of 40 you'll need to turn to W*128 but we'll be expanding on our top 20 highlights from each of the ten territories, rolling them out over the next few weeks right here.…

Video: Julius Schulman documentary

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:07:58 GMT

Winner of several awards including Best Documentary at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Lone Star Festival,ï¿½Visual Acoustics ï¿½ The Modernism of Julius Schulmanï¿½ is an elegant, considered and unreservedly lavish exposï¿½ of the most prolific architectural photographer of our time. View Visual Acoustics: the…

Book: The Fiction of Science

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Once an esteemed contributor to our very own magazine, German photographer Frank Hulsbomer has, for the past decade or so, been making a name for himself as one of the most innovative image-makers of his generation. See more of The Fiction of Science by Frank Hulsbomer Best known for his purely formal, intricate photographic approach, Hulsbomer will this month release…

Audi showroom by Wilkinson Eyre

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:32:50 GMT

Expressing your brand through architecture has become a signature of early 21st century design culture; few industries have embraced this approach with more gusto than car makers. Yet while German brands like BMW, Porsche and Mercedes realised the publicity value of striking neo-constructivism - employing Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Delugan Meissl and UN Studio amongst others…

Audi showroom, west London

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:32:50 GMT

FAT exhibition, Lausanne

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:12:40 GMT

Fashion, architecture, taste (FAT) are unwitting iconoclasts, preferring instead to be known for designing buildings that reflect their sense of place and purpose through ornament, pattern and form. In another decade, this approach would have been swiftly dubbed Post Modernism and left to wither. Instead, FAT's work dovetails neatly with our collage-heavy but ultimately meaning-bereft…

It's a Man's World at Harrods

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:00:25 GMT

Whilst shopping tends not to come naturally to most members of the coarser sex ï¿½ even the most seasoned of male retail aficionados will admit to getting hot and bothered after an hour flicking the rails ï¿½ the latest all-male shopping experience, devised by London retail monolith Harrods, is set to make a day pounding the aisles that little more permissible. See more of what's…

Camper by Yoshioka and Grcic

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Camper is fast building a heritage of collaborators that reads like a list of Wallpaper* leading lights. Over in Tokyo, Konstantin Grcic has taken his first foray into retail interiors, injecting a dose of industrial luxe to the Daikanyama district store. He has peppered the store with his concrete-based Chair One, constructed a 'Camper Brick' display on which to show the shoes…

The Ashmolean museum, Oxford

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:36:36 GMT

The Ashmolean museum in Oxford, once a dusty old labyrinth of higgledy piggledy rooms and illogical corridors, has been transformed almost beyond recognition in a ï¿½61m renovation by Rick Mather Architects. See more of the Ashmolean museum The result - a light-infused six-level palatial showcase - not only doubles the exhibition space available to the museum, but also…

Byredoï¿½s first store, Stockholm

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:49:05 GMT

Previously confined to the realms of pop-up stores and temporary points of sale, Stockholm-based perfumer Byredo last weekend launched their premier store in the Swedish capital. The brainchild of Byredo co-founder Ben Gorham, who designed the store together with Christian Hallerï¿½d and Johannes Svartholm, the aesthetic has taken the brandï¿½s signature pared-down style…

Love Me or Fuck Me..., London

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:32:47 GMT

Taking his cue from modernists, minimalists and monumentalists alike, London-based artist Cedric Christie's latest show, Love Me or Fuck Me but don't do both, is an elegant unlacing of esoteric artistic values - with a generous dollop of irony to boot. See more from the exhibition Love Me or Fuck Me but don't do both Decking out the whitewashed surrounds of Londonï¿½s Flowers…

Fab 40: France, USA, NYC

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:00:04 GMT

Fashionable Istanbul

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Last weekend on the banks of the Bosphorus, Istanbul played host to a series of catwalk shows by some of fashion's biggest names - Cavalli, Westwood, Ferre, Ferragamo and Missoni. The event - which went by the somewhat clunky title of Fashionable Istanbul - was organised with the intention of putting the city on the international fashion map. See more from Fashionable Istanbul There…

Roberto Cavalli interview

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Italian fashion mogul Roberto Cavalli was the first designer to show at Fashionable Istanbul. We took time out with him in his suite at the Ritz Carlton to quiz him on his thoughts about the event. How did you enjoy your show last night? No, how did you enjoy it first of all? I thought it was very good. It was nice, I'm glad you enjoyed it because I enjoyed it very…

The Istanbul Art Biennial

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

As the fashion crowd sipped champagne on a floating, red-carpeted catwalk just up the Bosphorus at Fashionable Istanbul, a rather more gritty, bleak take on life was to be found at Istanbul's 11th Art Biennial downstream. See more from the 11th Istanbul Art Biennial The biennial is organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts, spread across three venues…

Autoban studio visit

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In our inaugural 2004 design awards we singled out the Turkish design duo, Seyhan Ozdemir and Sefer Caglar, otherwise known as Autoban, as Best Newcomers after spotting their debut collection in a small corner at Maison in 2003. From small beginnings Autoban has gone on to great things and we stopped by their new office near Taksim square in Istanbul to say hello and find…

MOMO takes on Y-3

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:59:52 GMT

We're always partial to the odd creative collaboration, but to really grab our attention it needs to be something rather special. As such, when we first heard of the latest partnership between New York-based street artist MOMO and Yohji Yamamoto's super-luxe label Y-3, it took little convincing to get us on side. With an original brief to create a floor installation…

James Turrell show, Wolfsburg

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:22:25 GMT

James Turrell is one of the most important artists in the world dealing in light and space. He looks like a well-combed cross between Grizzly Adams and Karl Marx and has an aura of a man who has found his place in the fabric of things. He is in the German town of Wolfsburg (home to the Volkswagen car and an hourï¿½s train ride from Berlin) for the opening of a new exhibition…

JWP Epicenter project by Prada

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:46:00 GMT

Taking the well-known saying 'been there, done that, got the t-shirt' to a whole new level, Prada today unveiled the JWP Epicenter project, a new collection of souvenir t-shirts with the floor plans and frontages of the brand's seminal flagship stores printed on them. See more of the JWP Epicenter project by Prada The Jersey White Prada Obvious Classic t-shirts (understandably…

New British Embassy in Warsaw

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:04:56 GMT

Juggling design options for a building which should both sophisticatedly represent a country, while also accommodate the needs of a busy office workspace is certainly no mean feat, and one which has resulted in a huge variety of approaches in the past: embassy buildings have ranged from the 1960s British Embassyï¿½s sculptural concrete block in Rome by Basil Spence, to the 2007…