Anna Fixsen

4 days ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen

Talk about happy feet: Just in time for summer, Alex Proba, a Portland-based artist known for her colourful murals, swimming pools, homegoods and more, has partnered with running shoe company Hoka on a joyful collection of footwear. The collab, which brings four new palettes to shoes in Hoka’s range, aims to bring a bit of fun to a daily ritual as basic as tying your shoes. (Image credit: Courtesy Hoka)Proba established her Brooklyn and Portland-based firm StudioProba in 2013.

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon |Charlotte Gunn |Bill Prince |Anna Fixsen

A Chanel centenary (Image credit: Chanel)Bill Prince, Editor-in-ChiefTo celebrate 100 years of Chanel in London, I was fortunate to witness the English National Ballet re-stage Nijinska’s one-act ballet, Le Train Bleu, in the spectacular surroundings of the V&A East Storehouse, home to the Picasso curtain created for the original Ballet Russe production in 1924, which featured costumes by Gabriel Chanel.

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen

If you ventured into the cellar of the Hotel Chelsea shortly before the dawn of the New Millennium, you’d find yourself inside one of the buzziest nightclubs in Manhattan. Founded by British expat Serena Bass, the red-walled, barrel-vaulted space slung cosmopolitans and celebrities (guests included everyone from Johnny Rotten to Monica Lewinsky) in equal measure. When Serena shut in 2004, subsequent revitalisation efforts petered out, leaving Chelsea’s basement empty for about a decade.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Anna Fixsen

When Noz Nozawa first opened her San Francisco interiors firm in 2014, she faced an existential crisis: Was she a designer or was she a decorator? “I was brand-new to this universe,” she said. “I was a career switcher, so I held the term ‘designer’ with such esteem that I did not think that I could call myself that.”On her business cards, Ms. Nozawa split the difference and referred to herself as an “interior decorator.” As for her business name, she left the term “design” out altogether.

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen

You’d be forgiven if you’ve lost track of what’s been happening at the Breuer building, that icon of Brutalism hunkered at 945 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. In the last decade, the Marcel Breuer-designed landmark has gone from the home of the Whitney Museum of American Art (its home from 1966 to 2014); a short-lived satellite of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; to a temporary home for the Frick collection as that museum underwent renovations.