From: Wallpaper on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:26 PM

Hermès was early to embrace the iPad, crafting a calfskin case for what was then our newest toy for Handmade 2010, and partnering with us on our Case Studies iPad app. So we asked the brand to get digital with us again. To bring to life its new wallpaper collection, we enlisted the help of stude...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Jul 14 2011 7:19 PM

As an artist interested in putting fragments of production processes in the spotlight, sculptor Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez found a rich vein of material in Camper’s fusion of traditional craft and new technology. Exploring the shoemaker’s art for Handmade, she transformed a Bernhard Willhelm de...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Jul 14 2011 7:19 PM

CP Company’s iconic ‘1000m Goggle’ jacket seems a natural choice for Cuban artist Yoan Capote’s collaboration with the brand. Conceived 20 years ago, it draws inspiration from race-car driving, the perfect example of the fast-paced high life that Capote explores. A homage to the historic Mille M...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Jul 14 2011 7:19 PM

The duo behind Studio Glithero have created a niche for themselves as self-documenting designers, creating beautiful objects, as well as films to show exactly how they did it (watch it here). We were cock-a-hoop when they signed up as collaborators for Handmade this year, and even more ...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Jul 14 2011 7:19 PM

Artist Ryan Gander’s collaboration with G-Star involved adding discreet white embroidery, like drips of paint, to 30 pairs of its classic Arc Loose Tapered jeans, as well as a little Japanese figurine on a keyring. This character, ‘Cleaning Helping Friend’, wears Le Corbusier-style glasses and, ...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Jul 14 2011 7:19 PM

Hermès was early to embrace the iPad, crafting a calfskin case for what was then our newest toy for Handmade 2010, and partnering with us on our Case Studies iPad app. So we asked the brand to get digital with us again. To bring to life its new wallpaper collection, we enlisted the help of stude...

From: Wallpaper on Sat, Jul 09 2011 12:26 PM

When it comes to kitchens, it is often the humble appliances that do all the work but get little of the praise. Come September though, forward-thinking luxury kitchen appliance brand Scholtès, intend to reverse this long-standing injustice with the opening of its Centre of Excellence in London, ...

From: Wallpaper on Sat, Jul 09 2011 12:26 PM

When it comes to kitchens, it is often the humble appliances that do all the work but get little of the praise. Come September though, forward-thinking luxury kitchen appliance brand Scholtès, intend to reverse this long-standing injustice with the opening of its Centre of Excellence in London d...

From: Wallpaper on Wed, Jul 06 2011 2:52 AM

To kick-start our exclusive film series 'Wallpaper* Visionaries', exploring ground-breaking ideas within the realms of architecture, film maker Victor Vroegindeweij from the Office of Non-Fiction Storytelling, travels to Rotterdam where Reinier de Graaf, director of A.M.A, the research...

From: Wallpaper on Wed, Jun 29 2011 9:42 AM

Tracey Emin’s work may be as depraved, egotistical and confrontational as ever - there's even a used tampon thrown into one of her new pieces - but she's never been more in favour. Here we catch up with the British artist as she prepares for the opening of her retrospective at London&#...

From: Wallpaper on Wed, Jun 29 2011 9:42 AM

See work commence on Herzog and de Meuron’s new Tate Modern Project in London in this time lapse film, shot from the top of our London HQ. The soon-to-be towering extension to the existing Tate Modern will be home to more spaces for exhibitions, performances, installation art and learning. Film ...

From: Wallpaper on Wed, Jun 29 2011 9:42 AM

When it came to this particular collection, Raf Simons wanted to make a very strong statement about who Raf Simons is (the brand not the man) and what it stands for. It’s very clear from the referencing of traditional menswear - in this case the chain, the stripe, the check or plaid and intarsia...

From: Wallpaper on Wed, Jun 29 2011 9:42 AM

When it came to this particular collection, Raf Simons wanted to make a very strong statement about who Raf Simons is (the brand not the man) and what it stands for. It’s very clear from the referencing of traditional menswear - in this case the chain, the stripe, the check or plaid and intarsia...

From: Wallpaper on Wed, Jun 29 2011 9:42 AM

On the western side of Italy’s Lago di Garda, just up the green slope from the Andre’ Heller Foundation, ground is currently being broken on 'Villa Eden Gardone', an ambitious new residential complex designed by a hot shot roster of international architects. David Chipperfie...

From: Wallpaper on Sat, Jun 25 2011 9:32 PM

Starting things off with a short film and following through with a catwalk show, Maison Martin Margiela’s show format will satisfy both the digital media and traditional print at the same time. The film - shot against a dark background - had models' faces lost amongst the shadows, which all...

From: Wallpaper on Fri, Jun 24 2011 6:31 PM

The Mugler show opened with models marching out in oversized bits of body armour to Schubert’s sombre Piano trio in E-flat. This link between fantastical warriors and the piece that featured in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon wasn't lost on us. Starting off with the idea of the Olympian, the he...

From: Wallpaper on Tue, Jun 21 2011 8:41 AM

Umit Benan’s debut as the Creative Director of Trussardi proved what a masterful cinematic hand the Milan based designer brings to his character driven fashion presentations. Using the Milanese brand's Piazza della Scala store as a location, the designer staged the arrival of his &...

From: Wallpaper on Tue, Jun 21 2011 8:41 AM

Thom Browne knows how to put on a fashion spectacle. This season guests were treated to a fencing-inspired performance, complete with masked sword-bearing soldiers stomping out to the dramatic score of Star Wars in the belly of Milan’s Circolo della Spada Mangiarotti. Granted, the metallic body ...

From: Wallpaper on Tue, Jun 14 2011 2:48 PM

At this year’s Design Miami/ Basel, Galerie Patrick Seguin will be bringing one of Jean Prouvé's 6x6 m demountable bungalows back to life - and then dismantling it again - every single day. First created for war victims in Lorraine, France, in 1944, these bungalows were a startlingly modern...

From: Wallpaper on Fri, Jun 10 2011 7:30 AM

Launching this autumn, the Porsche-designed C’Seed takes advantage of several groundbreaking hand-built technical feats to become the world's largest TV. It is huge,complicated and slightly incomprehnesible until you see it in action and instantly want one.