Laura May Todd

Milan

Journalist, Editor and Copywriter at Freelance

Milan Editor at Wallpaper* Magazine

Freelance writer // Milan, London

Articles

At the Venice Biennale, Norman Foster and Porsche create a breathtaking 'Gateway' to the waterways

2 days ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

A new intervention by the Norman Foster Foundation in collaboration with Porsche appeared along the waterfront of the Arsenale at the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. Gateway to Venice’s Waterway is part installation, part platform for dialogue around infrastructure and the future of movement in Venice.
Polish designers spotlighted in Romantic Brutalism exhibition

6 days ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

In the crowded calendar of international design weeks, country-specific showcases can be hit or miss. At their best, they spotlight creative cultures on the brink of global recognition. At their worst, they read like hastily assembled national portfolios, more diplomatic than design-driven. ‘Romantic Brutalism: A Journey into Polish Craft and Design’, firmly lands in the former category –more provocation than presentation.
Inside an Italianate-Style New Orleans Mansion That Channels Parisian Glamour

1 week ago | architecturaldigest.com | Laura May Todd |Christian Harder |Katja Greeff

To live in one of the storybook homes that populates New Orleans’s Garden District—with their extravagant ironwork and gingerbread detailing—is, in many ways, to reside within a piece of history. The majority of the properties date back to the 19th century, when the area was developed as a fashionable enclave for wealthy Americans seeking refuge from the bustling French Quarter.
Inside an Italianate-Style New Orleans Mansion That Channels Parisian Glamour

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Laura May Todd

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by Architectural Digest editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. To live in one of the storybook homes that populates New Orleans’s Garden District—with their extravagant ironwork and gingerbread detailing—is, in many ways, to reside within a piece of history.
Tour a 1790s Dublin Home With a Lush Garden and Views of the Irish Sea

3 weeks ago | architecturaldigest.com | Laura May Todd |Ruth Murphy |Mairead Fox

In 2022, Dublin-based designer Suzie Mc Adam had just completed—or so she thought—the home where she and her family would settle for good. But fate had other plans. Just 200 meters away stood the house she would ultimately fall for. “A real estate agent friend of mine brought me to see it, potentially for a client,” Mc Adam recalls. “But as soon as I walked through the door, I called my husband and said, ‘We need to figure out a way to get this property.’”Who could blame her?
Step inside Prada's innovative new centre devoted to ocean education

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

Though Prada is, understandably so, mainly known for its clothing since Miuccia Prada took the helm of her family company in 1978, it has always had a robust presence in the cultural sphere. Fondazione Prada, the brand’s art and cultural institution, was founded in 1993 and expanded in 2011 and 2015, with the openings of its Venice and Milan galleries.
Inside the new Sunnei concept store and café in Milan – the perfect pitstop

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

When Milan-based fashion brand Sunnei sent models marching down Via Privata Pietro Cironi this past February, each clutching oversized, branded shopping bags, the spectacle was more than a mere unveiling of its A/W 2025 collection.
Emerging galleries to discover during Milan Design Week

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

Though the Rho Fiera, the fairground where Salone del Mobile is staged, is the true powerhouse of the wider Milan Design Week – the corporate fuel that keeps the industry running – it’s the smaller, independent projects that most of the design watchers who flock here each April really want to see. These exhibitions – largely independent and self-funded – are the design world’s bellwethers, the ideas, aesthetics, and materials we’ll see spreading across the globe over the next year.
Buccellati brings the forest and super Furry Animals to Milan

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd

During the maelstrom of Milan Design Week, visitors are understandably barraged with an endless torrent of the ephemeral and the new. So it’s a refreshing departure for a brand to focus on a hallmark product it has been perfecting and refining over decades.
This Gio Ponti-designed train is the backdrop for the next Prada Frames symposium

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Laura May Todd |Federico Ciamei

When Formafantasma’s Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin first announced their now-yearly Prada Frames symposium, launched in 2022 during Milan Design Week with the support of the Italian fashion house, it was a welcome antidote to the unforgiving pace and commercial focus of the event. Previous editions have dealt with materials and their relationship to the natural world, the exploitation of forests, and the politics of home.