Inhaltsverzeichnis für February 2017 in Wallpaper

Newsstand cover Photography: Anthony Cotsifas Producer: Michael Reynolds Among this year’s towering achievements, see Best Henge, page 062 ‘Louxor’ vase, $950, by Baccarat. ‘Tack’ console, $5,400, by Uhuru. ‘Relief’ stone cabinet, price on request, by Fort Standard. ‘RH Geometric Double-Door Cabinet’, from $3,195, by Richard Forwood, for Restoration Hardware. ‘Glitch 2’ desk, $20,895, by Christopher Stuart, from The Future Perfect Wallpaper* is printed on UPM Star, upm.com Limited-edition cover by Tom Sachs Taking his place on this year’s Judges’ Awards panel, Sachs created a special cover dedicated to the Dyson ‘Supersonic’ hairdryer, winner of Best New Grooming Product, see page 134 Limited-edition covers are available to subscribers, see Wallpaper.com Metropolis wow! Buffer than the Oscars, poncier than the Pritzker, naughtier than the Nobels. Welcome to the Design Awards issue, our…

One of a few classic watch marques also dedicated to nurturing specialist jewellery skills, Audemars Piguet has embraced the exotic architectural forms that modern technology allows. Yet its unique high-jewellery timepieces only emerge as a direct result of the audacious talent of its gemsetters. It is their mastery of precious stones and cuts that injects this watch with its Mad Max-like character. The 11,043 brilliant-cut sapphires that define its icy tones took 1,800 hours to set. audemarspiguet.com…

This year we were delighted to welcome back Afra and Tobia Scarpa’s ‘Miss’ chair from 1986 and Walter Knoll’s ‘375’ chair series from 1957. New old lighting came in the form of the iconic ‘Taccia’ lamp by the Castiglioni brothers, now available with a dimmable LED in a black or silver anodised finish, while Gino Sarfatti’s ‘Model 2065’ pendant has been revived by Danish/Italian brand Astep. Meanwhile, Italian carpet maker Amini has translated Joe Colombo’s sinuous pop shapes into rugs in a series of colour palettes.…

Nendo has reinvented the whiteboard, transforming the standard rectangle into a fabric-backed disc that rolls into place as a room divider. Meanwhile, this desk by US studio Ladies & Gentlemen puts the Shaker aesthetic on wheels, and Joan Gaspar’s lamp for Marset has a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, making it wire-free and utterly portable. Emeco may be best known for its aluminium chairs, but now Sam Hecht and Kim Colin have successfully applied its industrial aesthetic to shelving.…

Glas Italia’s curving mirrored screens reflect a clear trend towards glass furniture this year. Created by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka, the shimmering dividers are bent into shape by hand, creating ripples in the glass that add a bit of artisanal individuality to their sleekly reflective surfaces. This is glass with real class.…

We’re bringing utility out of the shadows. Mathias Hahn’s red-glazed oak cabinet for Zeitraum shares an almost doll’s house-like simplicity with Bower’s arched floor mirror and E-ggs’ stool for Ton. Perfectly complemented by the childlike squiggle of GamFratesi’s bentwood coat rack for Thonet, we think they’re brushed with greatness.…

We made an aesthetic pivot towards Asia this year, and our dressing room, in particular, acquired more than a hint of New Chinoiserie. Neri & Hu’s ‘Ren’ dressing table for Poltrona Frau took centre stage, with its Canaletto walnut frame and saddle leather surface. Able support came from the ‘Minima Moralia’ screen (named, as all good critical theorists know, after Theodor Adorno’s finest work) by Christophe de la Fontaine for Dante Goods and Bads, and from Konstantin Grcic’s ‘MingX’ armchair for Driade.…

Mario Bellini’s long and distinguished career spans design brands and counter-trends. As a designer who grew up in the austerity of post-war Italy, then began his career at the height of Pop and the Italian industrial boom, Bellini would be forgiven for an unrooted eclecticism. Yet what defines his work (still in progress) is a commitment to a sense of place and a sense of beauty, but bound up with a functional rigour that transcends shifts in the way we interact with places and things. As his ‘Italian Beauty’ exhibition opens at the Milan Triennale, it’s perhaps time to take stock and celebrate a lifetime in design. This is not a retrospective, according to Bellini, but a ‘prospective’, and the 1,200 sq m show takes you through a career…

Our current post-prandial palliative is the brainchild of jewellery designer Kristina Apostolou and oenologist Lefteris Mohianakis. Based on the oldest named wine known to man, the Anama Concept is a sweet wine made using a contemporary oenology technique and housed in a minimal bottle. We serve it in Adi Toch’s elegant blackened silver pourer, with Brandon Olsen’s eye-catching chocolates. Taking inspiration from Willy Wonka, Jackson Pollock and Buckminster Fuller, the Toronto-based chef’s sweet creations feature geometric shapes and bold colours in mouthwatering flavours that include yuzu-saké, pistachio-bergamot and raspberry-rose-fennel.…

This year’s pick of the outdoor crop, shot in Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw’s late-1970s Wesley Square gardens in London, proves good design can survive wind and rain (not to mention a bit of fog). Emu’s Terramare collection includes a lounge chair in water-repellent fabric, while Minotti’s chaise is wrapped in polypropylene webbing, and Ethimo’s dining table uses synthetic materials with a natural feel. Thonet has reinvented Mart Stam’s Bauhaus-era chair in bold, weatherresistant finishes for its All Seasons range, and illumination comes courtesy of Artemide’s outdoor ‘Tolomeo Lampione’, combining the flexibility of a desk lamp with the scale of a street light.…

Based in the Black Forest town of Furtwangen, Siedle launched the first door intercom in 1935 and has been innovating ever since. The company’s latest product, an automated home-delivery box, combines user-friendly utility with sleek German design. Developed in response to the unstoppable rise in home deliveries, the Siedle box initiates a video call to your smartphone if you’re out when a parcel arrives, allowing you to talk to the courier and unlock the box remotely. Needless to say, it’s especially handy for all those WallpaperSTORE* packages, alluringly designed by A Practice for Everyday Life. Printed on kraft cardboard, our gift boxes feature a geometric pattern derived from the Wallpaper* asterisk, with a system of sleeves that creates a bespoke layered effect. They certainly ring our bell. * siedle.com; store.wallpaper.com;…

The once-humble pancake is now complex, multilayered and a little bit of a show-off. In New York, streetfood-style cassava-flour crêpes from Brazil got a Manhattan makeover courtesy of Oca. Paper-thin but with the crunch of a taco, they contain organic fillings, such as wild salmon, wasabi, pumpkin seeds and avocado. In Osaka, Hummingbird by Very Fancy specialises in fluffy pancakes made with cheese and best enjoyed simply with granola butter. But the humble buttermilk pancake, flipped on its head by Dutch foodie Patricia Trijbits at London’s Where The Pancakes Are, had us at the first stack. With an option for every hour of the day, our current favourite is the cinnamon-tossed pineapple with cream, lime, coconut, pomegranate and toasted almonds. ocastore.com; veryfancy.me; wherethepancakesare.com…

Milanese designer Giacomo Moor’s ‘Kit del Legnamé’ toolbox, conceived for the Doppia Firma project, which teamed Italian designers and artisans, is so beautifully crafted that it’s a decorative object in its own right. Handmade by renowned cabinet-maker Giordano Viganò from olive, Italian walnut, leather and brass, the box opens to reveal six essential carpentry tools. giacomoor.com; giordanovigano.it…

Designers have been busy playing with the colour spectrum and tonal gradations – witness Christine Rathmann’s rainbow-coloured vases for Rosenthal, or Tomás Alonso’s technically challenging series for Swarovski, in which a series of glass-crystal prisms are bonded together for maximum brilliance and reflectivity. Leucos’ ‘Trigona’ pendant lamp, designed by Danilo de Rossi, casts a subtle light through three nested borosilicate-glass diffusers, which fade from white to clear.…

Glass is currently resurfacing in more imaginative forms. We fell in love with Ron Gilad’s mirrors for Cassina, their surfaces etched with discreet patterns and shapes. Other glass pieces that caught our attention include Nude’s ribbed vessels, with their semi-industrial feel and oblique forms. Ribbed glass also appeared in the collections of Paola C and Ferm Living, while Glas Italia and Staffan Holm took the technique to a larger scale with textured glass storage units and coffee tables.…

Say hello to the perforated pad, punctuated by Valeria Pantone and Dennis Pavoncello’s dimpled pendant lamps for Slamp and Odo Fioravanti’s hole-punched armchair for Pedrali, not to mention Evangelos Vasileiou’s 1970s-inspired steel-mesh table lamp for Ligne Roset. Even Lalique has released a limitededition crystal vase with a hole in its centre. Created by Mario Botta, it’s the latest in a line of architect collaborations. And casting an atomic glow is our screen made from Nya Nordiska’s laser-cut polka-dot fabric, designed by Sebastian Herkner.…

Fritz Hansen’s latest collection of accessories pairs Scandinavian cool with quirky functionality, from Studio Roso’s rainbow-surface steel mirror to Jaime Hayon’s vases and candlesticks in polished brass, untreated cedar and handblown glass. They perch perfectly on Pietro Russo’s floor-to-ceiling shelving system for Baxter, with its split-cane shelves and brass connecting pins. There’s no smarter way to make an entrance.…

With a concrete façade that combines serenity with impact, Indigo Slam, located in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale, is the home of art collector and philanthropist Judith Neilson, also serving as a base for her work and art collection. Architect William Smart, of Smart Design Studio, sculpted volumes of natural light that are cast into the interior, using a ‘language of peeling and folding’ to carve up the façade and control how light enters the building. And in response to Neilson’s request that the house be built to last 100 years, the materials used are hardwearing, with elements being mechanically rather than digitally operated. This includes oak veneered blinds that open and retract by means of hanging brass chains and awning windows operated by geared winders. smartdesignstudio.com…

‘SET’ DRESSING UNIT, €8,048, BY GIUSEPPE CASAROSA, FOR CECCOTTI COLLEZIONI. ‘SPOT’ STOOL IN WALNUT, $1,470, BY MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES, FOR HERMAN MILLER. ‘DAKOTA SUEDE II’ FABRIC IN GRAPE, £40 PER M, BY KIRKBY DESIGN. ON SHELVES, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, LEFT TO RIGHT: CLAY POMADE, £20; WAX POMADE, £20, BOTH BY DAIMON BARBER. SMALL ‘SHAKER’ BOX, $100, BY JONAH TAGAKI. IRONY BODY BUTTER, £46, BY NOVEL BEAUTY. TUSCAN WASH BAG, £149, BY THOMAS CLIPPER. GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY EAU DE TOILETTE, £65, BY COMME DES GARÇONS. NEOLITHIC SHAVE SET, PEWTER EDITION, £299; ‘MARK K’ RAZOR, £149, BOTH BY THOMAS CLIPPER. SHAVE OIL, $60; BROW GELCOMB, $45, BOTH BY TOM FORD JACKET, £1,466; SHIRT, £545; ROLL NECK, £822; TROUSERS, £532; JACKET (HELD IN HAND), £1,500, ALL BY PHILIPP PLEIN. SHOES, $990, BY SANTONI…

In times of unrest, we all need some kind of armour, but Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo took the concept to new levels, fashioning her version out of floral-patterned jacquards made with silks from Lyon. Arguing for beauty over brute force, the precisely cut voluminous layers explode like highimpact flower bombs. Kawakubo is set for another show of strength, in May, when she will become the second living designer to have a show at The Met’s Costume Institute in New York. comme-des-garcons.com…

Mario Botta’s reinvention of the Fixpencil uses a chessboard pattern to emphasise its hexagonal shape – a perfect complement to Normann Copenhagen’s new stationery range, designed by Danish fashion-design agency Femmes Régionales. Terrazzo turns up again in Altfield’s splotchy fabrics and Schönstaub’s carpet, with Max Lamb’s splattered stool sitting pretty on top.…

‘I’m curious to see if the icons we know and love can be articulated in another way,’ says American industrial designer Joey Ruiter of his reimagined ‘Tinnie’, the classic small Australian fishing boat. A dart-like two-seater, his tiny Tinnie 10, just 3m x 1.9m, comes in at under 80kg and is formed from welded and bent powder-coated aluminium, with white oak flooring and high-tech fabric on the centre bench.…

David Bowie’s passing heralded a year of frightful and saddening comings and goings. Bowie died just two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar. He was experimental to the last; the album’s cover, created by graphic designer and long-time collaborator Jonathan Barnbrook, was the first not to feature an image of Bowie but instead a series of mysterious hieroglyphs. And the album artwork kept delivering surprises. If you hold the gatefold cover to the light, a celestial image is revealed; expose it to a black light and it shines a vivid blue. ‘I think it is boring to understand everything immediately,’ says Barnbrook. ‘There are some people who have the album that don’t realise the front says “Bowie”. It is all about a sudden realisation, or knowing there…

Creative director Jonathan Anderson brought added stretch to Loewe’s A/W16 collection with a dress hand-woven from 4,500 rubber bands – finally we know what to do with ours. Antonio Citterio has been getting into the string of things too, with his ‘Crono’ chair for Flexform. Formed of cowhide cords, the back gives it an intriguing touch of the Wild West. loewe.com; flexform.it…

Liz Swig of New York’s LizWorks is the architect of unlikely artistic collaborations with beautifully unexpected results. ‘Though a charm bracelet isn’t unexpected in itself,’ she explains, ‘a bracelet featuring creations from seven female artists is.’ Working solo, each artist had no idea what the others were creating, but the result is a ‘diverse dialogue between the women who would live together on the wrist’. This jangling conversation is brought to life in precious materials by Italian jewellery brand Ippolita.…

We’re always on the look-out for new-fangled angles, and so we’re very taken with Massimo Castagna’s ‘Isola’ bookcase for Gallotti & Radice, with its technically accomplished combination of glass sides and diagonally sloping brass shelves. Just as sharp in its own quiet way is the freestanding ‘BuzziBlinds’ room divider, designed by Alain Gilles for BuzziSpace. These rotating acoustic blinds are covered with felt on an aluminium frame, and can be opened or closed with a simple twist. Armani Casa, meanwhile, maintains its cutting edge with its ‘Link’ coffee tables, which look good from every angle, even upside-down.…

These days, you don’t have to be in possession of a cabin buried in a snowy-frosted birch forest to enjoy your own sauna experience. The likes of Italian bathroom company Effegibi are making the Scandi wellbeing staple as easy and as desirable as possible to install at home. The customisable ‘Air’ design, launched this year, features suspended benches around a central heater, allowing the sauna to be placed on existing flooring. The airy feeling is enhanced by LED lighting below the benches and the toughened glass façade.…

ON SALE 9 FEBRUARY A Adi Toch Tel: 44.20 7436 2344 (UK) aditoch.com Alessi Tel: 44.20 7518 9091 (UK) alessi.com Altfield Tel: 44.20 7351 5893 (UK) altfield.com Amini Tel: 39.037 746 4311 (Italy) amini.it The Anama Concept theanamaconcept.com A Portuguese Love Affair Tel: 44.20 7613 1482 (UK) aportugueseloveaffair.co.uk Arita Tel: 81.955 42 2016 (Japan) 2016arita.com Armani Casa Tel: 44.20 7079 1930 (UK) armanicasa.com Arte Tel: 44.800 500 3335 (UK) arte-international.com Artemide Tel: 44.20 7631 5200 (UK) artemide.com Astep Tel: 45.7070 5001 (Denmark) astep.design B B&B Italia Tel: 44.20 7591 8111 (UK) bebitalia.com Baccarat Tel: 44.20 3318 6087 (UK) baccarat.com Baker Furniture Tel: 44.20 7823 3612 (UK) bakerfurniture.com Balenciaga Tel: 44.20 7317 4400 (UK) balenciaga.com Baux Tel: 46.821 0707 (Sweden) baux.se Baxter Tel: 44.20 7629 7902 (UK) baxterlondon.net BDK parfumsbdkparis.com Bisazza…

DESIGNER OF THE YEAR 01. Vincent Van Duysen Van Duysen became Molteni & C’s creative director, designing a trio of products for the brand: the ‘Paul’ sofa, the ‘Quinten’ cabinet (pictured) and the ‘Jan’ table, all exhibiting his trademark finesse. vincentvanduysen.com 02. Mathieu Lehanneur Integrating technology with design is key to Lehanneur. Recent work includes an ecofriendly boat, interiors for Café Mollien (light pictured) at the Louvre and a solo show, ‘Spring’, in London. mathieulehanneur.fr 03. Doshi Levien Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien explored bold curves in furniture for Moroso and B&B Italia and created curtains for Kvadrat, a campaign for Bolon and a daybed for Galerie Kreo (pictured). doshilevien.com 04. Sebastian Herkner Herkner designed IMM Cologne’s Das Haus installation, debuted innovative pieces for Linteloo, Moroso and Sancal at Salone…