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2 days ago | 
wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen
When the financial services firm UBS tapped Carine Roitfeld to curate a special exhibition on the house of Dior, the legendary French fashion editor was more than game for the job. In fact, you might say she was born to do it – Roitfeld was delivered in a Parisian hospital directly across the street from the maison’s legendary 30 Avenue Montaigne address.
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2 days ago | 
wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen
When Herman Miller acquired Knoll Inc. four years ago to form the super-company MillerKnoll, it was a big deal. Just how big of a deal?
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Anna Fixsen
Sara Sugihara is always on the move. In her 71 years, she has travelled the world, learned seven languages and danced at Studio 54. But one thing she never got around to doing was actually move: Shortly after arriving in New York in 1972, Ms. Sugihara landed in a rent-stabilized studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and stayed there for the next five decades. "I was the doorman," she joked. "People would pound on my window and, if I felt like it, I would go out and open the door.
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2 weeks ago | 
wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen
When Thomas Heatherwick was tapped to design Longchamp’s New York flagship in 2004, he had one goal: ‘to scoop people in off the street and make them go upstairs.’To do so, Heatherwick, who was little-known in the US at the time, opted to punch a hole through the building and install an undulating stair made from steel ribbons that seemingly cascaded down the three-storey building like a waterfall.
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2 weeks ago | 
wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen
New York Design Week might be winding down, but things at the festival’s marquee event, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), are just heating up.
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3 weeks ago | 
wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen
The sun shone brightly last week as an American curatorial team inaugurated the 2025 US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. A who’s who of American architects and design journalists mingled beneath a zig-zagging timber roof that was purpose-built for the pavilion, titled PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity. There were celebratory speeches, music and a dance performance. Even Diane von Furstenberg swung by.
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3 weeks ago | 
wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen |Harriet Quick
Refresh Who is design’s ‘in’ crowd? This must-see new show takes a look(Image credit: Jonathan Hokklo)In the world of capital ‘d’ Design, it’s easy – easier than most would like to admit – to experience an itchy feeling of not belonging, whether you’re at a scene-y event, experiencing FOMO on Instagram or realising that the chair you’re coveting has a rent-level price tag. Even so-called ‘Insiders’ (designers, gallerists, and, yes, Wallpaper* editors) can succumb to the same feelings.
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3 weeks ago | 
wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen
In the world of capital ‘d’ Design, it’s easy – easier than most would like to admit – to experience an itchy feeling of not belonging, whether you’re at a scene-y event, experiencing FOMO on Instagram or realising that the chair you’re coveting has a rent-level price tag. Lin Tyrpien and Jenny Nguyen at Lyle Gallery(Image credit: Jonathan Hokklo)Even so-called ‘Insiders’ (designers, gallerists, and, yes, Wallpaper* editors) can succumb to the same feelings.
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4 weeks ago | 
wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen
Before Pierre Yovanovitch was a world-renowned interior designer, furniture maker or set designer, he worked for another famous Pierre – Pierre Cardin. The legendary fashion designer, a pioneer of French ready-to-wear, offered Yovanovitch an apprenticeship. What followed was a 16-year-long career with the house, first as a licensing manager and then a menswear designer.
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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Anna Fixsen
When Acne Studios approached Jonathan Lyndon Chase to design an installation for its S/S 2025 runway presentation in Paris, it was the first time the Philadelphia-based artist had ever collaborated with a fashion brand. In fact, Lyndon Chase – despite their proclivity for flowing skirts and acrylic nails – had to Google the Swedish label’s name. ‘I was looking at the vibe, the colour, the textures and attitude of what Acne Studios is really passionate about,’ they tell Wallpaper*.
