Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2026 i Wallpaper

01. Ceramic vessels, by Jacques Monneraud French artist Jacques Monneraud’s creations appear to be flimsy pieces of corrugated cardboard held together with bits of tape, but are, in fact, ceramic vessels that can hold water without any spills or soggy bottoms. Monneraud grew up in a family of artists and makers, and worked as a creative director for years, but only took up pottery five years ago. After a lot of experimenting with different clay mixes, he came across a texture perfectly resembling cardboard. The addition of ‘tape’ – actually two different glazes, applied with a brush in four very precise strokes – completes the optical illusion. @jacquesmonneraud 02. ‘Freaky Puddle’ stool, by Nicolas Zanoni For the past three years, Nicolas Zanoni has been transforming expanded polystyrene into unusual designs.…

The Wallpaper* Design Awards are back, marking not only our 30th anniversary, but also the return of four of our often-hotly debated special categories. Through these key areas of excellence, we honour and elevate the outstanding places, products and people who lifted our spirits and improved our lives in the past year. Reimagined and cross-sectional, these four special categories underline the pioneering power of imagination, as some of the creative industry’s finest representatives battled it out to be crowned Designer of the Year; Best Launch; City of the Year; and Life-Enhancer of the Year. Shining a spotlight on those making the biggest impact in design and culture, our shortlist encompassed everything from night lights and sauna delights to a groundbreaking museum concept and a glass-like hydrating face mask. To decide…

Was 2025 the year everything in design became collectible? The elegant glamour of the secondary market met the rigour of industrial R&D in the same brand, showroom, object, breath. Stands at Salone resembled not just furnished but fully inhabited midcentury houses in Palm Springs. Even the most innocuous dining table belied the simplicity of its form as the culmination of a five-year research project into repurposing waste material from an industrial process. New furniture looked old, and simple furniture bore sectoral innovations of mind-blowing proportions, all packaged in the cinematic splendour of our experience-obsessed times, where layer upon layer of sensory titillation resulted in reveals so sublime they became surreal. We’re still dreaming of Loro Piana and Dimorestudio’s La Prima Notte di Quiete instamersion at Milan Design Week. How we…

WINNING HANDS Call it confirmation bias if you will, but as we were sending our annual Design Awards issue off to press, it felt as if the news cycle was mirroring our fascination with the way in which we absorb the world around us through the ideas and objects we create. In quick succession came word that Pantone had kicked up some political dust by prescribing white as its Colour of the Year. Next, the Trump administration ordered the replacement of the Calibri typeface on all state department correspondence with Times New Roman in a blow to ocularly challenged screen-readers in particular and fans of sans serifs in general. Finally, a hippo-shaped home bar by French sculptor François-Xavier Lalanne broke the global record for a work of design when it…

‘The act of telling time, heavy in philosophical symbolism, is a work of art in its own right’ Collaborations between watch brands can be very successful when each brand brings a strong visual identity of their own to the table, so when the richly traditional Swiss manufacture Ulysse Nardin announced a partnership with avant-garde Genevan watchmaker Urwerk, we were more than a little intrigued – particularly as this is Ulysse Nardin’s first collaboration with a fellow watchmaking brand. On closer inspection, however, the pairing is not as surprising as it might seem as both brands have pursued a modern, technical-first approach over the last few years, with cultural moments overlapping on both their timelines. Founded by Martin Frei and Felix Baumgartner in 1997, Urwerk has come to be defined by…

No matter who you are, every day of your life contains a multitude of tasks to be undertaken. The mark of a well-designed object is when it makes those tasks more pleasurable – sitting down to work, for instance, is easier with an elegant, ergonomic desk chair; bracing the cold weather is more pleasant when you can do it in a cocooning overcoat. The following beauty products have been selected as winners because they each have their own way of transforming one aspect of daily life into a simple, effective routine that you actually look forward to. The Ziip Halo is a sleek, handheld device that offers the transformative effects of a high-end salon facial in the comfort of your home. Designed to be an all-in-one skincare solution, the Halo…

The role of the creative director, at least in the form we know it now – the multi-hyphenate aesthete that dictates everything from imagery to experience – is a relatively recent invention. As culture and media have become more fragmented, these cross-disciplinary figures have risen up to meet the moment — the macro-thinkers able to make sense of all that dispersion and wrangle a brand or an artist into a single, cohesive vision. No one has been more successful at it than Montreal-born designer Willo Perron. One simply has to take a cursory flip through his recent portfolio to understand his cultural impact. He’s come up with the concepts for some of the most talked about live shows of this era — Beyoncé’s Western-themed Cowboy Carter tour and Rihanna’s floating-stage…

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BEST PAWS A teddy bear collaboration plays on our heartstrings When we heard that Raf Simons was collaborating with Kvadrat and Steiff on a teddy bear, we were all ears. The result did not disappoint, with the object combining the classically rigorous manufacturing skills of the German toy maker with the imaginative fabrics that Simons has been creating with the Danish textile brand since 2014. For this particular collaboration, Simons chose his ‘Asator’ fabric in Desert Sand, a 100 per cent cotton short pile velour that feels 100 per cent fit for purpose. The sleek fabric adds a discreet whimsicality to the traditional Steiff bear structure, and a Kvadrat/Raf Simons logo is emblazoned on a paw. The teddy forms part of a Simons and Kvadrat collection specifically aimed at children,…

What do you get a design-minded young woman for her 20th birthday? Well, if you’re Assaad Raphael, the founder of Porsche Centre Lebanon, the only gift that could possibly mark the occasion is a customised Porsche – reimagined by Milan studio David/Nicolas. Raphael is something of a car obsessive, and for the past two-plus decades has been the sole importer of Porsche in Lebanon – in addition to co-owning a garage that restores classic cars in Dubai. ‘At the time, my daughter Shaha was studying architecture and not really into cars,’ he says. ‘So I thought this would be a great way to introduce her to this world.’ He knew that simply buying a luxury vintage model would do little to pique her interest, so he approached the duo with…

For our interview with Sharan Pasricha, we were invited to meet him at Maison Estelle, the private members club he founded in a Grade I-listed Mayfair townhouse. With its understated opulence, richly furnished rooms and crackling autumn fires, it couldn’t have offered a better prelude to the world the hospitality impresario inhabits. ‘It’s a place that’s thoughtfully curated, not staged, where you can be social or alone without needing to explain yourself,’ says Pasricha, who founded the phenomenally successful hospitality conglomerate Ennismore in 2011. His entrepreneurial story began when, as a boy, he sold his mother’s sandwiches at his primary school in Mumbai. ‘The sandwiches were fantastic and the margins even better,’ he notes. It was a life lesson that stood him in good stead years later when he had…

JE ahn Je Ahn, Studio Weave, UK I recently completed my own home on the Isle of Wight. The budget was limited, but the project had an inherent sense of luxury in that I was in the unusual position of being my own client, so I could respond more nimbly and directly to project demands, such as the site’s conditions, market pricing and contractor capacity. It was a deeply personal project, where the closeness of the relationship between the makers and the architect-client (me and myself) meant that normal constraints, such as the realities of a moving-in deadline, didn’t have an effect on the project’s aims. This attitude is a great way to introduce the building that I wanted to talk about here, as it ties to ideas of flexibility,…

When we sit down to speak with designers Stephen Burks and Malika Leiper, they say they are fulfilling a long-held dream by living in Paris, the latest location to serve as their base since 2024, reflecting a practice in which home is less a fixed point than a network of places shaped by relationships and work. Over the past year, the designer and cultural director have reshaped their lives around residencies and collaborative projects in Montana, Senegal, Alabama, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and rural Japan, using each location as a testing ground for new ways of working at the intersection of craft, community and industry. For Burks, who found international acclaim as a New York-based product designer, and Leiper, who grew up in Cambodia and trained as an urban…

Detroit looks different these days. Its grand but long-abandoned buildings – vestiges of a bygone era when the automobile was king – have been transformed into galleries and hotels. New glistening towers soar high above the historic skyline. Once blighted neighbourhoods have been redeveloped to keep existing residents while attracting new ones – 12,500 in 2024, according to US census data. There’s a sense of optimism here that’s hard to find anywhere else in the US. This transformation is emblematic of a new wave of revitalisation sweeping the Motor City, one that stems from the first seeds of scrappy urban renewal that began to emerge here a decade or two ago. Back then, organic farms and replanted urban forests started to crop up on the vacant plots of former row…

We like to honour our winners with a physical award, but who to help us create one? Milan-based design studio Formafantasma was the first name to spring to mind for its ability to encapsulate the creative zeitgeist. Founders Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, who were our Designers of the Year in 2021, proved to be the perfect collaborators, enthusiastically leaping on the challenge we set them: to create an expressive sculpture made of paper, to be received by this year’s winners in a flat-packed envelope and to be assembled by each honoree independently. The studio worked from a series of references that included models from past projects such as Ore Streams and Maison Matisse. The designers’ early moodboards included colourful sculptures whose lightness mimics the effortlessness of paper, artworks by…