Anna Solomon

South West London

Digital Staff Writer at Wallpaper* Magazine

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Articles

8 refillable beauty products for minimal waste and maximum impact

6 days ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon |Hannah Tindle

Refillable beauty has revolutionised the industry, with the aim of reducing surplus packaging waste; only about nine per cent of that packaging would have been recycled, according to the British Beauty Council.
Out of office: the Wallpaper* editors’ picks of the week

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.
This LA home is also a gallery – with no social media allowed

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon

This is the latest instalment of The Inside Story, Wallpaper’s series spotlighting intriguing, innovative and industry-leading interior design. The Inside Story celebrates spaces in all of their manifestations – homes, offices, cafés and everything in between. This week, we spotlight a space that defies categorisation, introducing what feels like an entirely new concept.
A swift martini with Stanley Tucci

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon

If there’s one thing to know about Stanley Tucci, it’s that the man loves pasta. Between his 2021 CNN series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy and this year’s Tucci in Italy on National Geographic and Disney+, in which he explores his ancestral homeland (his grandparents emigrated to the US from Calabria), he has sampled rigatoni in Rome, pansotti in Liguria and bigoli in Veneto – and that’s just the beginning. ‘I'll eat pasta every day,’ Tucci says.
Ten super-cool posters for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics have just been unveiled

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon

Each Olympic cycle, Triennale Milano collaborates with the Organizing Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs) for the Olympic Art Posters project – an initiative that commissions ten original works from artists under the age of 40. Today marks the official unveiling of the artists and their posters for the next Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, to be held in Milano Cortina, Italy, from 6-22 February 2026.
Francesca Allen explores Lithuania’s long hair competition

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon

If photography has a singular purpose, it’s perhaps to document the lesser-known, the niche, and gloriously bizarre aspects of our world. That’s precisely what British photographer Francesca Allen achieves in her latest series, ‘Plaukai’, which chronicles the ‘Long-Haired World’ competition in Lithuania – locally known as ‘Konkursas Pasaulio Ilgaplaukes’.
Ever wondered why the Pompidou Centre looks the way it does? A new exhibition in London reveals all

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon

Richard Rogers is an undisputed occupant of the architectural hall of fame. The now-88-year-old British-Italian architect, renowned for his modernist, constructivist and high-tech designs, left an indelible mark on cities around the world with his buildings, which include the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Lloyds Building in London, and London’s Millennium Dome.
Out of office: the Wallpaper* editors’ picks of the week

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon |Charlotte Gunn |Anne Soward |Nick Vinson

An ode to affordable furnitureVincent Van Duysen's home, populated by Zara Home furniture(Image credit: Vincent Van Duysen)Nick Vinson, Contributing EditorThis week was pretty special.
Inside a restored 18th-century Puglian villa

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon

This is the latest instalment of The Inside Story, Wallpaper’s series spotlighting intriguing, innovative and industry-leading interior design. In design, the juxtaposition of old and new is a time-honoured trope. In his restoration of an 18th-century house in in the village of Scorrano in Puglia, Tommaso Franchi, founder of the London-based architecture and design studio, Tomèf, took the concept to charming heights.
A luxury house boat? These floating sanctuaries are redefining life on the water

2 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon

In recent years, interest in houseboats has been increasing, with the Canal and River Trust reporting that up to 50,000 people currently call the UK’s waterways home. It speaks to a growing appetite for non-traditional and off-grid living and holiday living. It was only a matter of time then, perhaps, before the question of luxury floating homes came to the fore.