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Wallpaper*Another piece of King's Cross’ masterplan is complete – and is a fascinating example of prefab construction King's Cross has evolved into more than a pass-through transit hub. Coal Drops Yard has a bustling independent Japanese crafts market, cool listening bars and design shops galore.
Wallpaper*Aya Moug's papyrus furniture connects her Egyptian roots with contemporary design When Egyptian designer Aya Moug was seeking a way to reconnect with her roots through her practice, she turned to papyrus: a sedge harvested along the shores of the Nile and used in ancient Egypt to…
Wallpaper*Torre Velasca, Milan's brutalist icon, is about to be transformed into the city's most coveted residential address Have you always dreamt of living in an icon of brutalist architecture ? The forthcoming Torre Velasca Residences in Milan can offer a vision of just that, thanks to an exclusive new group of luxury…
Wallpaper*Concrete New York is the latest Blue Crow guidebook to sculptural architectural design Blue Crow Media cements its reputation as one of the leading purveyors of guidebooks to contemporary architecture with a new publication, Concrete New York .
Wallpaper*A hempcrete cabin in Iceland is a ‘house for the soul’ This hempcrete structure may be small, but its architects are hoping its impact will far outweigh its physical size.
Wallpaper*Sabine Marcelis brings 15 years of light and colour to her Zurich show The ’Column’ lava lamp that Dutch-New Zealand designer Sabine Marcelis made for Mathmos stands almost 3m tall, its milky wax drifting inside a cylinder of frosted glass.
Wallpaper*Craig Ellwood’s Kubly House is for sale, a prime slice of mid-century modern in Pasadena Craig Ellwood (1922 to 1992) was a charismatic and self-made architectural superstar, adept at whipping up mid-century modern confections throughout the hills and canyons of California for a coterie…
Wallpaper*At Kettle’s Yard, Sunil Gupta considers photography, identity and belonging ‘It's unusual for me to be in a space like this. Art and photography, in the UK anyway, have had a checkered relationship, so I wasn't expecting to be here.’ Sat below a Roger Hilton painting in the…
Wallpaper*Marrion’s brings a New York neighbourhood bar to Hackney Elliott Kaye worked at kitchens that take themselves very seriously – Lyle’s, The French House, Leroy – before making his name with Norman’s café in north London.
Wallpaper*Sabine Marcelis’ lava lamp world is in the pink – and you can buy a piece of it Dutch artist and designer Sabine Marcelis is known for her warm and wonderful colour palette, applied to her renowned furniture and object designs, such as her ‘ Varmblixt’ lamp collection for Ikea…
Wallpaper*Designing for the modern office: Brunner and Doshi Levien launch a flexible furniture collection How can seating help shape relations between people? This question was on the minds of Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien of London design studio Doshi Levien as they were creating 'Session', a…
Wallpaper*Lose yourself in these artists’ modernist houses, a lush journey across global creativity Have you ever wondered where creatives live? Artists’ Modernist Houses , a new book by publisher Batsford, looks at just that, taking readers on a fascinating journey across scales and territories in…
Wallpaper*Herzog & de Meuron is transforming an old Birkenstock warehouse into a design museum dedicated to Charles and Ray Eames. See the renderings ‘The role of the designer is that of a very good, thoughtful host,’ American designer Charles Eames once said.
Wallpaper*How Aldo Bakker's ambiguous designs merge sculpture and function The work of Dutch designer Aldo Bakker defies convention: eschewing the immediate, traditional functionality of design objects, his pieces are sculptural in scope and largely abstract.
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