Wallpaper* Magazine

3 days ago | wallpaper.com | Kee Foong

A new addition on the cusp of Sydney’s Central Business District, The Eve Hotel Sydney is a brick and biophilic low-rise that showcases Australian art and design while celebrating its history and locale. Part of the TFE Hotels group, this new opening strives to be ‘a playground for the curious and creative’. Wallpaper* checks in a The Eve Hotel SydneyWhat’s on your doorstep? With its lush canopy of oak trees, Baptist Street is a picture of tranquillity.

4 days ago | wallpaper.com | Dan Howarth

Milan's annual design week typically revolves around installations and exhibitions in the city's grand palazzos. These are undoubtedly beautiful settings for displaying design—and part of what makes Milan such a special showcase—but these spaces have become highly competitive to obtain for the jam-packed week, as well as slightly expected by audiences.

6 days ago | wallpaper.com | Jonathan Bell

Subaru used to be a byword for stoic, no-nonsense mobility. Especially in North America, where its most popular models were notably smaller than the local average. Decades of experience with the US market – where Subarus were first imported in 1968 – led to the opening of the Subaru of Indiana Automotive plant in Lafayette, Indiana, in October 1989. Tariff-dodging is therefore not an issue just yet, but perhaps more importantly, there’s a distinct absence of desire in the company’s current line-up.

6 days ago | wallpaper.com | Anna Solomon

A rare Frank Lloyd Wright table lamp is hitting the auction block next month in New York. The so-called ‘double-pedestal’ lamp, commissioned more than a century ago for the Susan Lawrence Dana House in Springfield, Illinois, is one of three such lamps ever created – and is expected fetch up to $5 million as a highlight of Sotheby's Modern Evening Sale on 13 May.

6 days ago | wallpaper.com | Danielle Demetriou

'Children don’t need to be told how to play – an object just has to catch their attention and make them excited to play, without conscious thought,' says Naoto Fukasawa. 'I’m trying to help kids be creative by letting them find their own way to play.'The legendary Japanese designer is sharing his thoughts on play while seated on a chair perhaps unlike any other he has designed during his decades-long career: it’s tiny in size, tomato red in colour and has smooth, simple curves.