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Wallpaper* is a publication under Time Inc that concentrates on various topics including design, architecture, fashion, travel, art, and lifestyle.

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A book of physique photography celebrates clandestine visual culture

1 day ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

‘A friend who visits a lot, always sits at my desk (where I have all these pictures), and has never shown interest in them, really responded once he saw my edit,’ says the revered critic, collector and sometime curator Vince Aletti, reflecting on an early phase of his new monograph.
Now you can visit creative studio PlayLab’s archive in LA

2 days ago | wallpaper.com | Ellie Stathaki

Multidisciplinary creative studio PlayLab has worked with some of the showbiz's biggest names – think A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, Virgil Abloh, and Justin Timberlake, as well as brands such as Vans, Adidas, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Nike, Rimowa, Fenty and Skims.
Ever experience imposter syndrome? This new design show is for you

3 days 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.
Director Amalia Ulman on her Chloe Sevigny-starring new film 'Magic Farm'

3 days ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

The first image Amalia Ulman dreamed up while writing her sophomore feature involved a radiant green field and a bright blue sky. In Magic Farm, which the Argentine-Spanish filmmaker and conceptual artist also directs and stars in, the scene features her real life grandmother driving a motorcycle, the surrounding landscape an echo of the Windows XP wallpaper introduced by Microsoft in 2001. ‘I always saw it as colourful,’ Ulman shares over Zoom.
At the Venice Biennale, Norman Foster and Porsche create a breathtaking 'Gateway' to the waterways

3 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.
The NYCxDesign events our editors can't stop talking about

4 days ago | wallpaper.com | Harriet Thorpe

From 15-21 May, the Big Apple's creative scene comes to life as part of New York Design Week 2025 – an ever-expanding ecosystem of exhibitions, talks, tours and parties. The festivities are anchored by the NYCxDESIGN festival, whose 2025 theme is 'Design is for Everyone,' and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). There are newcomers to the week as well, notably the first edition of Shelter, a design fair and marketplace created by online furniture platform Afternoon Light.
Two editors discuss their experiences of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

4 days ago | wallpaper.com | Ellie Stathaki |Jonathan Bell

Featuring a whopping 750 participants, ‘Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.’, the main show at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, opened this weekend in the historic city of Venice.
Huma Bhabha and Alberto Giacometti share an emotional connection in dialogue at the Barbican

4 days ago | wallpaper.com | Amah-Rose Abrams

The Barbican has opened Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha, the first in a three-part collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation that sees work from Alberto Giacometti paired with contemporary artists in the centre’s new gallery space. The first exhibition is with sculptor Huma Bhabha, whose work is known for its scale, material and texture. Bhabha creates imagined hybrid figures from materials such as Styrofoam and found objects, referencing elements across eras and belief systems.
Why Hong Kong is emerging as a bold new capital of culture

4 days ago | wallpaper.com | Lauren Ho

Few skylines are as instantly recognisable as Hong Kong’s. With its serrated silhouette of glass towers pressed up against jade-coloured peaks, it’s a city built on drama and contrast. But beneath this indelible cityscape lies a complex, multilayered metropolis, where colonial legacy, Cantonese tradition, entrepreneurial spirit and everyday street life intersect in one of the most densely populated environments on earth.
We savour the new Aston Martin Vantage Roadster on twisting Austrian roads

4 days ago | wallpaper.com | Jonathan Bell

Aston Martin’s ‘New Vantage’ certainly packs a punch in hard-top form. These days it’s unsurprising to find that driving characteristics and essential statistics can pretty much be cut and pasted between the open and closed versions of a sports car. The new open version is an improvement, aesthetically and dynamically, on the previous generation Vantage Roadster, which was hardly a slouch or lacking in the looks department.