Wallpaperの June 2021 の目次

Beauty and science have long been intertwined. Most beauty products are created in laboratories by researchers well-versed in the combination of chemicals used in skincare or the molecules that make up perfumes. However, a select group of scientists are currently using their unique insight to transform the beauty industry. Professor Augustinus Bader is one such innovator. A stem cell and biomedical scientist at Leipzig University, Bader stumbled into the world of skincare after developing a revolutionary topical cream that could heal burn injuries to an extent previously only possible through skin grafts. The stem cell science behind that cream forms the basis of his eponymous skincare line, and will soon to be followed by a haircare range. Meanwhile, Wendy Ouriel was studying extracellular matrix biology before pivoting to skincare. Her…

When Mario Tsai is not on the road for fairs or factory visits, he spends most of his time in his studio in a suburb of Hangzhou, just a two-hour drive south-west of Shanghai. ‘I found space and serenity here to do my work, while maintaining reasonable proximity to the city,’ he says. Tsai was born in Hubei, central China, and there was not much in his early years to suggest that he might become one of the country’s most promising designers. ‘I had a very simple countryside childhood,’ he recalls, ‘but I remember a scene on television of an architect walking down the road holding rolled blueprints; I was mesmerised.’ In the early 2010s, he says, the concept of ‘independent designers’ was virtually unknown in China, yet ‘there were…

Moving stuff around cities is becoming an even more intractable problem than moving people. While personal travel plummeted during the pandemic, urban traffic remained remarkably constant as deliveries took up the slack. Even in pre-pandemic times, Transport for London predicted that the city’s light commercial traffic would increase by 22 per cent between 2011 and 2031, and this was before the flourishing of digital infrastructure that enabled takeaways and one-hour deliveries at the swipe of a screen. The key issue now is reducing the impact of all that at-home retail therapy. And the uptake of kinder, smarter commercial vehicles. The next few years will see several pure electric delivery vehicles come to the market. While the most familiar four-wheeled beasts of burden are slowly switching over to electric power, a…

Newly unveiled in Botswana’s Okavango River Delta, Xigera Safari Lodge is as much ‘a living gallery of African talent’ as a celebration of the natural landscape. Created by the Tollman family, of the Red Carnation hotel group, together with architect Anton De Kock and architectural designer Philip Fourie, the lodge boasts a remarkable collection of contemporary African art, design and craft, curated by Toni Tollman (the group’s director of design and projects), in collaboration with South African design gallery Southern Guild. ‘Xigera Safari Lodge is our love letter to the magic of the African bush, the culmination of a lifelong dream,’ says Tollman. ‘We know our guests will leave utterly transformed by Africa’s life-enhancing beauty.’ Two years in the making, the project features one of the most ambitious collections of…

Categories Most tactile tech design Best use of colour and tech Smartest furniture design Smartest lighting design Best collaboration (tech + design brand) Best life-improving / wellbeing design Application of nature and tech / best sustainable design Best-looking television design Best use of re-used materials in tech Smartest luggage / carry-on bag Sleekest portable speaker Zippiest personal mobility Domestic genius tech Ingenious home application Most influential social media tech tool Wine & Design award for best home bar accessory Most intelligent multitasking object Most stylish personal / wearable tech Go-ahead transportation service Fittest-looking home gym equipment Work from home award for best desktop tech Our panel of Wallpaper* editors, designers and industry experts will be judging each category based on quality, impact and user experience. Winners will feature across Wallpaper*…

Mexican conceptualist Gabriel Rico’s poetic assemblages bring together found objects with crafted pieces, encouraging the viewer to engage with big issues, such as the relationship between humans and nature. ‘Art acts like a bridge and is a language all of us understand,’ he says. Inspired by his Excessive Butter series (taxidermied deer heads with balls between their antlers), we created this interpretation of his favourite ceviche, using ingredients for which his adopted hometown of Guadalajara is known. ‘It’s mixed with products from the north of the country, like chiltepin peppers,’ he says. ‘The decision to use pomegranate is a personal touch.’ Gabriel Rico is at Perrotin New York until 5 June, perrotin.com. For his recipe, see Wallpaper.com…

Newsstand cover Photography: Umit Savaci Fashion: Jason Hughes Top, £545; trousers, £730, both by Salvatore Ferragamo. Shoes, £715, by Prada. See more from our retro gamers, page 122 Pictured top left, the new climate centre in Lemvig, Denmark, by 3XN architects, see page 066; and, top right, pieces from Pierre Yovanovitch’s eponymous new brand, see page 052 New wave Welcome to the Innovation Issue, a celebration of fresh perspectives and bold ideas. I am delighted to have Yves Behar, pioneer of experiential design and transformative technology, as our headliner. Ahead of the launch of his forthcoming book, Designing Ideas (released in July), he has created our limited-edition subscribers’ cover (as well as animated versions on Wallpaper.com), and talks in depth with Wallpaper’s transport and technology editor Jonathan Bell about how…

Japanese watch brand Grand Seiko epitomises clean design, a concept it formalised in 1967 with the launch of its understated ‘44GS’ wristwatch. Balancing form and function, the watch knitted together the elegant technical accomplishments that underpin a Grand Seiko watch, defining for the first time its nine cornerstones of design. These include multi-faceted markers, a flat dial, a curved profile and a highly polished bezel, foundations upon which all subsequent watches have since been built. Dials may be flat, but textured patterns create an illusion of depth, containing a subtle spectrum of hues that nod to the Japanese custom of expressing the gradations between light and shadow, rather than the stark monochrome of black and white. The ‘Hi-Beat Birch Forest’ watch, part of the ‘Series 9’ collection, plays on these…

Life has been a little devoid of colour of late, which is why, for spring, we’re setting our sights on sunglasses in a seductive spectrum of shades. We suggest investing in some transparent frames in vivid jewel tones that will gleam in the sun like a precious stone, from Bottega Veneta’s retro futuristic lilac cat-eye frames to Gucci’s oversized 1970s styles in cerulean. For someone keen to reflect an entire prism of colours, a clear silhouette is most striking. Lindberg, Louis Vuitton and Prada are all offering eye-catching options in geometric and wraparound styles. It looks to us like life just got a little brighter.…

Keeping sane, fit and healthy has never felt so important. The global news media has been bombarding us daily with data on disease and death for more than a year now. That has led many to take stock of their priorities and place a higher value on optimising health. I am a maniac when it comes to preventive medicine, which is why, once a year for the past 15, I have spent ten days or so at the Viva Mayr clinic in Austria getting a part-cleanse and check-up with regenerative rest. I check out with a boosted immune system, helpful for fighting viruses. If I had the time (and funds), I would check in every six months rather than 12. I think I may have an unnatural attraction to specialists,…

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On a busy stretch of West Broadway, in New York’s well-heeled Tribeca neighbourhood, a slatted wood oasis surreptitiously stands behind the historic façade of one of the area’s many cast-iron buildings. Inside, a fundamental mix of materials (wood, painted brick, and echoes of the cast-iron façade and industrial steel elements that have been intentionally left exposed) create a tranquil environment – certainly not what you would expect from a typical hair salon. This elegant milieu is, in fact, home to Spiral (x,y,z), a hair salon founded by beauty entrepreneur and innovator Lorraine Massey, who most notably founded the cult salon Devachan and its DevaCurl product line, specifically catering to curly hair. Designed by architect Kazem Naderi, of New York firm Nad Projects, the Spiral (x,y,z) space mirrors its founder’s vision…

The association between the automobile and fine leatherwork is long and distinguished, but it’s not always been about luxury. Many of the earliest high-end automobiles used leather for the exposed chauffeur’s seat, with the enclosed passenger compartment featuring a more precious – but not so weather-friendly – fabric finish. Hermès understands a thing or two about weatherproofing. The grand exterior luggage for cars and carriages, first created by Émile-Maurice Hermès at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the company’s experience in the nautical world, demanded leather of the highest grade and strength, as well as quality tanning and finishing skills. Those elements combined were the foundations of the company’s definition of luxury. In recent years, Hermès has increased the focus and profile of its bespoke services. Under…

For stockists throughout, see page 137 Over the past 12 months, we’ve swaddled ourselves indoors in soft folds of fabric, but now, as we start to re-emerge into the outside world, many of us are still seeking clothing that provides ample protection. Luckily, a host of men’s performance brands are ticking all our technical boxes, with outerwear in innovative fabrications that will shield against the elements, whether you happen to be camping out in remote wilds, or simply striding the city streets. For a stylish take on safeguarding, we recommend layering up your protective pieces, from global collective Affix’s jackets and Japanese label Snow Peak’s vests to Italian brand Herno’s parkas and Dutch label Byborre’s tracksuit trousers. These designs are constructed from a variety of boundary-pushing fabrications, including Herno’s ultra-light…

Home has taken on a new meaning in the past year, as many of us have transformed the place where we live into the place where we also do just about everything we would have once done elsewhere. Although the tides are turning, creating a comforting home environment remains ever pertinent, and scent offers a fast-track way to breathe new life into a stifling space. A new home diffuser from Poltrona Frau and Acqua di Parma couldn’t come at a better time, then. Launching this September, it’s the first collaboration between the two iconic Italian brands, and has been designed by GamFratesi, who have channelled the signature aspects of both heritage brands into a single object. The diffuser’s hand-sewn circular covering is made from one of Poltrona Frau’s Pelle Frau…

We’ve always been partial to keeping things pure and simple, so we were thrilled to encounter OAX Original, a new, artist-driven line of small-batch, limited-edition mezcales produced in Oaxaca, Mexico. OAX’s mezcales are so refined and pure, they are best sipped neat. The three batches – Tepeztate (intense citric aromas and a wet earth taste), Tobalá (sweet floral and herbal hints) and Arroqueño (buttery with hints of sweet coffee and almonds) – are crafted using wild, single-origin, foraged agave ranging from 12-25 years old to give a clean, complex taste and a sensual bouquet, and each mezcal is housed in a striking, matte ceramic bottle by Brooklyn design studio Bardo Industries, inspired by vernacular Mexican architecture. We paired these monolithic marvels with a couple of other sculptural beauties – Baccarat’s…

When the opportunity presented itself to take over the better part of a park in the quiet, trendy Jinnan area of Tokyo’s Shibuya district, Blue Bottle Coffee was quick to make the move. ‘We’ve wanted to open in Shibuya for a long time, but were waiting for the right location,’ says chief brand officer Saki Igawa. The Californian brand has a strong foothold in Japan, and seeks out less-obvious locations. The first local store, opened in 2015, did a lot to put the Kiyosumi area in east Tokyo on the coffee map; the chain has also successfully transformed traditional townhouses in Kyoto into trendy hotspots for the caffeine-hungry. Schemata Architects, led by Jo Nagasaka, has been the practice of choice for the brand, designing almost 20 stores in Japan alone,…

Design firm Pentatonic and entrepreneur and philanthropist Natalia Vodianova have launched Masuku, a new brand offering an innovative and sustainable mask concept. Named after the Japanese word for ‘mask’, Masuku nods to the importance of the face mask in Asian cultures, where it is commonly worn as a sign of respect for the community’s health. Its initial goal to create an anti-pollution mask has acquired new urgency in this pandemic; and its inaugural product, Masuku One, combines cutting-edge technological innovation and a sleek design. Vodianova began to search for a sustainable alternative to everyday masks in 2016, which led her to connect with Pentatonic, a design and technology innovator whose projects have material research at their core. The studio has created objects from recycled smartphone glass, cigarette filters and e-waste,…

Tucked away on an unassuming street, within a quiet residential pocket off the beaten track in east London, Remi Connolly-Taylor’s first new build cuts a distinctly contemporary figure. Marking the end of a residential terrace, the bold structure feels at once modern and respectful to the low Victorian housing it sits next to. Maryland House, named after its namesake neighbourhood in Stratford, is a highly tailored live/work space, designed precisely for the needs of its dynamic creator and her young business. The site presented a number of opportunities to the architect. ‘We were attracted to the location, particularly being close to the well-connected and developing hub of Stratford,’ says Connolly-Taylor. Its small footprint (a mere 76.5 sq m) meant ‘we knew the house had no choice but to be different…

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