Tabla de contenidos para June 2016 en Wallpaper

SANTIAGO CALATRAVA Architect This month’s limited-edition cover image is a sketch by Santiago Calatrava of New York’s Oculus, the white-ribbed main hall that he created for the World Trade Center’s new transportation hub (see page 045). The Zurich-based Spanish architect’s work, which includes many bridges and railway stations, is typified by advanced engineering and dramatic forms, and the purity of this soaring design is perfectly adapted to such a historically weighted site. POLLY MORGAN Artist British artist Polly Morgan’s work presaged the current taxidermy revival by focusing not on making animals look life-like, but by celebrating their beauty and form while underlining their mortality – and our own. Her celebrated nest drawings use cremated bird ashes, while her elaborately contorted snakes are hosted on plinths like table-top sculptures. For us…

For those not heading for sand and sea this summer, we’ve rounded up the season’s best-looking women’s city sandals. These urbane versions by Prada, Bottega Veneta, Tod’s and Alvaro will effortlessly take cosmopolitan tailoring into the warmer months, grounding lightweight dresses and louche layering. Spaniard Alvaro Gonzalez – who founded his eponymous brand in 2013 after 20 years of working behind the scenes for the likes of Loewe, Valentino and Jimmy Choo – grew up wearing espadrilles all year round and it’s a practice he now applies to sandals. Gonzalez’s sartorial advice? Seek a sandal with a little weight to its leatherwork – be it with multiple straps or hardware – to urbanise summer ensembles. TWO SEATS GOOD Next year sees a big-name revival in the classic compact sports car,…

Needle craft Tattoo artist Maxime Buchi makes his mark at Hublot When he first talked to Hublot about the possibility of a collaboration, tattooist Maxime Büchi insisted on going deep: ‘I said that if the extent of the project was decorative, I wasn’t the right person to work on it. I didn’t know precisely what I wanted to do, but I knew it couldn’t be just that.’ Büchi is not the first tattooist to work with a fine watch house (though he is the first Swiss one). But, as other tattooists’ designs already included strap and dial work, Büchi wanted to make a more fundamental impact on how the watch marked time. A former student at Lausanne’s ÉCAL, Büchi’s core craft is typography – he co-founded an online font foundry…

Eight years ago, a company named Impossible Project saved the last Polaroid film factory from extinction and, with it, Polaroid instant photography. Since then, the more toxic elements have been tweaked out of the film, the quality has been improved, and now the company is bringing out a brand-new camera, the I-1, for what is hoped will be a whole new generation of analogue instant photographers. Great! But why do we need another technological panda in the old world panoply of consumer goods? There was a time, not so very long ago, when we surrounded ourselves with consumer products that had single, dedicated functions: we had a watch, a wall clock, a telephone or two, a record player, a cassette player, a radio, a TV, a video player and a…

Power base ME BY MELIÁ, MIAMI For a luxury Miami hotel, proximity to the beach is pretty much de rigueur. Interesting, then, that the new ME Miami, the brand’s debut in the US, is betting on a downtown location that is within spitting distance of the Adrienne Arsht Center, American Airlines Arena and Pérez Art Museum. Local firm Zyscovich Architects and Spanish interior designers Proffetional and ASAH have turned the former Casa Moderna hotel into a sparky, 129-room retreat. Oak finishes, metallic fabrics and cowhide-clad Eames chairs are teamed with sexually provocative images by upand-coming Madrid-based photographer Alberto Van Stokkum, while glimpses of Marmara marble remain from the hotel’s previous incarnation. The views are of the downtown skyline or the shimmering edge of Biscayne Bay. More sybaritic distractions come by…

A world of oenophile wonders and spirit-raising accoutrements In Taipei or any of the many other dynamic destinations in the series, from Berlin to Chicago, Copenhagen, Istanbul, London, Milan, New York, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo, Wallpaper* City Guides uncover the most enticing architecture and the hippest haunts. Whether you are on a business trip or a weekend break, here is an insider’s checklist for the design-savvy visitor. COQ AU VIN ‘Ayam’ decanter, by Riedel Maximilian J Riedel, the 11th generation president of the eponymous family-owned glass company, wanted a special project to mark its 260th anniversary. Committed to maintaining his family’s tradition of entrepreneurship and innovation, he wanted to create something new and exceptional, a manufacturing challenge to establish a new design standard for the company. Riedel’s inspiration came from…

That offal (in this case, chicken livers served rare) appears in contemporary taxidermist Polly Morgan’s favourite recipe should not be much of a surprise. For the artist’s work includes, among the stunning coiled snakes on plinths and members of the finch family slumped around picture frames, Myocardial Infarction (2013), featuring five lovebirds feasting on a resin heart, its blood dripping down a white display stand. After all, someone whose freezer may, at times, contain four years’ worth of garden birds, a cormorant and a chimp, and who knows how to skin a baby giraffe, is unlikely to be fazed by a hint of pink in the middle of her chicken livers. For Morgan’s recipe, visit Wallpaper.com…

Parisians have never really taken to porridge – probably because few breakfast options rival a buttery croissant or crusty baguette. However, the Bol Porridge Bar, which opened in the 10th arrondissement in January, is doing a good job of stirring up excitement among locals. Co-owners Audrey Bremond and Maaike Chaix open up at 7.30am and offer a hearty menu of organic oatmeal options, all served in custom-designed ceramic bowls. Prepared to order so that requests for almond or soy milks can be accommodated, the porridge – neither soupy nor sludgey – comes topped with the likes of oven-baked banana, maple syrup and sesame seeds or salted-butter caramel sauce, apple and almonds. The savoury selection includes spelt softly cooked with leeks, smoked haddock and spinach, and cracked wheat simmered in coconut…

A young design firm without gallery representation can struggle to, well, represent. A number of key design fairs are built around signing up galleries and their rosters. No gallery, no way in. Collective Design Fair, the New York-based showcase for collectible design, is attempting to change that. It launched a programme at its fourth annual edition, in early May, called Collective Concept, which enabled five independent, and unrepresented, studios to present their work. Brooklyn-based firm Fort Standard is one of the five (the others are Lindsey Adelman, Apparatus, Calico Wallpaper and Cocobolo). Founded in 2011 by Pratt Institute graduates Gregory Buntain and Ian Collings, Fort Standard’s output is typified by a refined approach to materials, a clean aesthetic and an uncomplicated philosophy to functional objects and furniture. The firm’s Red…

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur’s new project, the Day boat, stems from a very personal vision. ‘I knew what I wanted,’ he says, describing his quest to find a dream vessel, ‘a 15m boat, as elegant as a sailboat but easy like an inflatable canoe. I was looking for a type of beauty that does not take itself seriously.’ He was also seeking enough space for friends and family to come together, and an environmentally friendly design that would use renewable energy. Not finding a boat on the market that would fit the bill, Lehanneur decided to design it himself and have it built. The designer’s past projects range from a hi-tech collection of energy-monitoring devices for Schneider Electrics and the ‘Boom Boom’ polyhedron speaker for Binauric, to more organic design,…

When the art committee of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas first approached New York-based artist Suzanne Tick about a weaving for its new chapel, the brief called for a handmade work, as she puts it, of ‘silk or lovely fibres’. The Reform synagogue, the largest in the South, already boasts a weaving by legendary midcentury modernist Anni Albers on the ark doors in the enormous main sanctuary and wanted something similarly elegant in its new, more intimate Stern Chapel for the ark in which the Torah scrolls are kept. Tick – by day a leading designer of luxury textiles – is a master at the loom and has created scores of proprietary threads in silk, cashmere and wool for her commercial projects. But her art is a different story, and the…

The pace of the modern businessman, who changes time zones like he changes ties, was the inspiration behind Paul Smith’s line for the contemporary nomad, aptly named ‘A Suit To Travel In’. ‘I’m constantly on the go and often have to run straight from a plane or train to stand in front of an audience, so having a suit that can withstand all that movement and still look fresh is important,’ says Smith. His lightweight suiting, produced in collaboration with textiles manufacturer Loro Piana, is constructed from a cloth woven from 100 per cent New Zealand wool, making it breathable, while the textile’s high-twist yarn is crease-resistant, taking the wrinkles out of work travel. ‘I imagine that lots of people are under the same pressure, so I thought I would…

A slick daily commute is crucial in getting the day off to a good start, and a well-designed station is an integral part of this journey. It’s no surprise, then, that infrastructure is such a hot topic, especially in densely populated urban centres such as New York, where the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, designed by Santiago Calatrava, has just opened. The Spanish/Swiss architect’s sleek and sinuous structure replaces the Port Authority Trans-Hudson rail system destroyed in the September 2001 attacks. Located just to the east of the original World Trade Center Twin Towers, the revamped hub will now feature an added connection to subway trains. But Calatrava aimed for the structure to be far more than a practical, much-needed interchange for pedestrian pathways, subways and rail lines: featuring one…

Picture for a moment an Airbus A319, with a 36m wing span and 24m-long cabin, a wide-body jet usually configured with between 124 and 156 seats. Then think of the same cabin with just 17 single seats, two three-seater sofas and one four-seater sofa. One sofa, in the bedroom, converts to a full-sized bed. The seats are completely redesigned over an existing metal frame that allows them to recline fully to flat beds, are immaculately upholstered in Hermès leather and fabrics, and feature a flush pocket detail to take a tablet or a magazine. This private jet is no fantasy. The design, build and finish of its seats, sofas, lighting and interior textiles is the latest commission of a special department within Hermès, known as Hermès Horizons. Hermès’ more usual…

However hackneyed the phrase, ‘hipster central’ is still the most appropriate way to describe Maboneng, a once grimy, crimeridden area to the east of Johannesburg’s Central Business District that is slowly emerging as a vibrant, urban neighbourhood. The rumblings started seven years ago when local property whizz Jonathan Liebmann bought and stitched together five run-down warehouses to form Arts on Main (W*176), a creative hub and studio space for the city’s bright young things. Now, having snapped up a further 32 properties, Liebmann is single-handedly transforming the precinct, one derelict building at a time, creating – as he puts it – one of the world’s greatest neighbourhoods. It is now home to the Museum of African Design (MOAD), a string of new restaurants, bars and cafés, and some pretty lofty…

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It takes a strong landscape to accommodate strong architecture. Ever since its inception in 1994, Norway’s National Tourist Route Programme has blended infrastructure, heritage and design innovation with landscape. To date, there are 18 established routes, criss-crossing the coastline and interior of this spectacularly beautiful country. The roads themselves are rarely less than stunning – when passable – but it’s the rest stops and attractions along the way that have elevated the initiative into a grand architectural experiment. From the outset, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration commissioned architects and designers to create bold contemporary interventions in the landscape – often in order to enhance a viewpoint or commemorate an event or the history of the site. The steep-sided fjords, mighty waterfalls and epic sweeps of coastline can withstand even the…

Museo de Automoción La Torre, Madrid A celebration of the automobile, and the location of our fashion story, Madrid’s upcoming automotive museum is suitably slotted into a plot between two busy highways on the outskirts of the capital. It was designed by architects Emilio Tuñón and Luis Moreno Mansilla, and is being realised by Tuñón after Mansilla’s untimely passing in 2012. Its round volume, seen in our photographs in sculptural, rough concrete, will eventually be clad in metal from recycled car parts when the museum is completed in 2018. The circular form is the result of the site’s boundary restrictions and also references historical public entertainment venues, such as Roman arenas. Inside, displays will unfold on various levels to transport visitors to different points in the motor industry’s past, present…