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Interactive floor plan: Campodels House, Chur

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This concrete structure, created by the artists and architects Pascale Wiedemann and Daniel Mettler, is intended as a sober second home with a pared-down interior to focus the attention on the site, light and space. Take a look inside Campodels House Located in the Bï¿½ndner mountains close to Chur, the skewed concrete cube provides generous accommodation for two families,…

Paola Navone at Few & Far, London

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This month Italian artist, architect and designer, Paola Navone is the curator of our Wallspace virtual gallery. See more of Paola Navone's show at Few and Far As luck would have it, Navone has this week opened another, more permanent, exhibition of work at West London curio and clothes shop, Few and Far. 'Pisces', Navone's first exhibition in the capital, features…

Wallspace*: Paola Navone

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:17:56 GMT

The Italian designer Paola Navone worked with Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi in the Alchimia group between 1970 and 1980 - together they were the leading proponents of avant-garde design. Navone has since been a prolific figure on the global design scene, combining…

Lene Bødker show, Maastricht

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:14:20 GMT

Every year in March, the quiet city of Maastricht nearly splits its seams as dealers and collectors of antiques descend on it for the high octane fine art fair that is TEFAF. While the event is primarily Louis XIV in leaning, each year the design section quietly grows. To coincide with this years' fair, Leon Salet, one of the city's most contemporary galleries, is showcasing…

Lene Bï¿½dker show, Maastricht

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:14:20 GMT

Wallpaper* and HTC interview Horace Luke

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:21:07 GMT

HTC have been at the front line of communication innovation for the past 13 years. Established in 1997, the Taiwanese company has been producing super-intelligent smartphones from the beginning. Sponsor of this yearï¿½s Wallpaper* Design Awards, HTCï¿½s ï¿½Quietly Brilliantï¿½ philosophy is one to which we can relate. And, with three new devices on the market this year - the HTC Legend,…

A/W 2010 show invitations

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Though you could never accuse us of attending the opening of an envelope, when it comes to fashion week invitations we find they're worthy of a little celebration in themselves. Season on season fashion houses in each of the cities experiment with materials and techniques to create surprising, interesting and often rather clever allusions to the collections they're about to…

Geneva Motor Show 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Geneva 2010 marked a return to simple lines, elegant forms and fresh optimism. There appeared to be an almost unified attempt to address and shape emerging new themes in the motor industry, as companies stepped up with myriad solutions for a design language that engaged with sustainable mobility. See highlights from the Geneva Motor Show Mike Robinson, Design Director…

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2010

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:12:13 GMT

The Folding Plug by London student Min-Kyu Choi has been crowned the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010 at this year's Design Museum Design Awards. Min-Kyu Choi's ingenious redesign of the humble household device ï¿½ also nominated by Wallpaper* for our Life-Enhancer of the Year Award 2010 - was selected from among the seven category winners as the most compelling and…

Paris A/W 2010 show venues

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

From a giant iceberg at Chanel to a rotating carousel at Viktor & Rolf, the Paris A/W 2010 show venues were as varied and imaginative as the collections they hosted. See our edit of the best Paris venues …

Les Lalanne retrospective, Paris

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:35:45 GMT

From rhino-shaped desks to cabbage and bird hybrids, the whimsical world of celebrated French sculptors Claude and Franï¿½ois-Xavier Lalanne is being explored in a major retrospective at Les Arts Dï¿½coratifs in Paris. See more work by Claude and Franï¿½ois-Xavier Lalanne Claude and her late husband, who worked closely since their first joint exhibition in 1964, have long been…

'Glamour Factory' by Viktor & Rolf

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:47:51 GMT

The creative union between Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf and Studio Job is a visual match made in heaven. Their fantastical imaginations and bold visuals first came together for Viktor & Rolfï¿½s S/S 2010 presentation and six months on their A/W 2010 show, titled ï¿½Glamour Factoryï¿½, was a second outing. Studio Job, with Viktor & Rolf, created nuts, bolts and conveyor belt shapes…

Global View

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:28:47 GMT

Globetrotting is part of the daily grind at Wallpaper* - it's how we keep up with what's going down around the world, from Aarhus to Zhanjiang and everywhere in between. Much of what catches our attention is the idiosyncratic and the incidental - signage, street style, packaging - things that don't merit a feature in themselves but tell a story as a whole about the places we…

Robbie Cooper: Immersion

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

When Robbie Cooper filmed a series of porn aficionados sharing (and showing) the depths of their passions for Wallpaperï¿½s inaugural sex issue last year the response was explosive. The photographer and video artist films people through a screen (in which a Red digital camera is embedded) watching a range of different visual stimuli, from computer games to horror films, footage…

David Rockwell/Swarovski Oscars curtain

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:18:15 GMT

Internationally acclaimed architect and designer David Rockwell has been tapped for the second consecutive year to reinvent the set for the Oscarï¿½ telecast. Once again, Rockwell worked with Swarovski to bring his sketches to life, creating a custom designed Swarovski crystal curtain and eight crystal swings that promise to add sparkle to the set of the Kodak Theatre. See…

Beat Takeshi Kitano show, Paris

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

TV personality; film star; director; comedian; writer and artist ï¿½ 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano is one of Japanï¿½s most ambidextrous exports. Famed for cult gameshow 'Takeshiï¿½s Castle', alongside films including 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence' and 'Battle Royale', Kitano has caught the art world's attention in recent years with his paintings. See more of Kitano's 'Gosse de peintre' Despite…

Artist's Palate: Ed Ruscha

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

For our Artist's Palate back page in the April issue of Wallpaper (W*133), American artist, Ed Ruscha, whipped up a Southern-inspired, cactus-filled omelette. Just as appetising was the typewritten recipe he sent to Wallpaper* Art Editor, Sarah Douglas, which we felt was too good not to share... Here, to the letter, are his instructions. Utensils Omelette pan…

Book: Outsider Films on India

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

For the April issue (W*133) we took a brief look inside Shanay Jhaveri's new book, 'Outsider Films on India 1950/1990'. Within the 264-page tome, Jhaveri - a one time Wallpaper* staff member, and current RCA research fellow - explores ten European films and documentaries made between 1950 and 1990, all of which take the post-independence subcontinent as their subject. See…

Beat Takeshi Kitano, Paris

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

TV personality; film star; director; comedian; writer and artist ï¿½ 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano is one of Japanï¿½s most ambidextrous exports. Famed for cult gameshow 'Takeshiï¿½s Castle', alongside films including 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence' and 'Battle Royale', Kitano's paintings have caught the art world's attention in recent years. See more of Kitano's 'Gosse de peintre' Despite…

Paris Fashion Week

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

It's show time again. From New York to London, Milan to Paris, the women's A/W 2010 collections are being unveiled and from top to toe we've got them covered in all their glory. Photographer: Jason Lloyd-Evans Profile: Jason Lloyd Evans Paris News 'Glamour Factory' by Viktor & Rolf View the film Chanel A/W 2010 show Read the article London Bloggers The…

Contemporary Korean Design, NYC

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:52:50 GMT

The first collaborative outing from New York's R 20th Century Gallery and the Gallery Seomi in Seoul, 'Contemporary Korean Design' opened earlier this week in the former. See more contemporary Korean design from the New York show Bringing to light work from a host of Korean artists, the exhibition features a range of one-off pieces, some never-before-seen in the West. Showcasing…

World's first floating island, Seoul

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Seoul hasnï¿½t rested on its laurels since winning the crown of World Design Capital 2010. This month it proved the scope of its architectural ambitions once again by launching the foundation for the worldï¿½s first artificial floating island on Hangang River. See more images of the floating island The steel-framed platform is the base of the first of three interconnecting…

Chanel A/W 2010 show

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:07:45 GMT

Though calling anything 'cool' nowadays is something of a death knell in the style stakes, there aren't any other adjectives that fully do justice to Chanel's A/W 2010 show. See more of Chanel's icescape The spectacle, which took place at the Grand Palais this morning, was housed in a hermetically sealed 'glacier' box in subzero temperatures, constructed to resemble…

New Fornasetti vases by Bitossi Ceramiche

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Fresh characters have been added to the family of Fornasetti vases by Bitossi Ceramiche this month. As always, the designs give a witty twist to Piero Fornasetti's iconic prints, such as the face of his muse Lina Cavilieri. Each of the designs is produced in limited edition and once sold out, will be replaced by a new personality. See more pictures of the collection All…

Apartment building in Carabanchel, Madrid

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:04:06 GMT

It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to pull off a truly colourful building. One of the sorry legacies of modernism's largely sterile palette was the post-modernists' sudden lurch into jarring colour, splashed superficially over faï¿½ades with little sense of creative composition. Colour application is also the foremost strategy of regeneration - witness HawkinsBrown's scheme…