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Newspaper* • Wallpaper’s hot pick of the latest global goings-on

BORN AGAIN • A pair of Marcel Breuer-designed pedestal tables emerge from the archives

Kinder surprise • A striking new art gallery opens its doors in Houston

Habit forming • We’ve high praise for a new collection of objects inspired by monastic life

Fibre optics • Celebrating the fabric futurism of technical brand Stone Island

THE VINSON VIEW • Quality maniac Nick Vinson on the who, what, when, where and why

Finders keepers • Fashion designer and inveterate collector Paul Smith shares a few of his favourite things in a new book, and here with his friend and travelling companion Deyan Sudjic

OPEN HOUSE • Dividers rule in architect Francesco Librizzi’s free-flowing Milanese apartment

DEEP IMPACT • Playful shapes and subterranean pleasures in rural Portugal

Tokyo story • Marcio Kogan draws on his travels in Japan to create new seating for Minotti

Urban jungle • From vertical gardens to bamboo bridges, Vo Trong Nghia is set on greening Vietnamese architecture

Soft landing • Cashmere specialist Loro Piana debuts its first furniture designs and devotes an entire floor of its new Tokyo store to interiors

TRAIL MAKER • French artist Sophie Calle’s work spans imagined lives and actual death. Here, she talks about exhibitionism and intimacies, love and loss, and more than a century’s worth of lonely hearts ads that inspired her latest project and a 20-page portfolio for Wallpaper*

ON THE HUNT • Inspired by 125 years of lonely hearts ads, gleaned chiefly from a French hunting magazine, artist Sophie Calle’s latest project explores the thrill, and the mundanity, of the matrimonial chase. Here she shares selected excerpts. Having catalogued adverts by theme and date (overleaf), she pairs original French text with images of hunters’ miradors and night-time prey, before offering further imagery and English translations. Happy hunting

Full bloom • Yayoi Kusama’s interpretation of Veuve Clicquot’s premium cuvee is alive with flowers, polka dots and optimism

Reality check • Artist Sarah Sze explores the shadowy spaces between physical and digital worlds

Time frame • Photographer Paolo Roversi captures the essence of Italian furniture company Poliform as it marks 50 years of high craft and creativity

Refit for work • Abandoned in a hurry, quickly forgotten by some, and desperately missed by others – what next for the workplace and its design?

Holy order • David Chipperfield Architects turns a 17th-century German convent into a 21st-century office complex

Heavy lifting • Greek architect Georges Batzios squares up to the renovation of a landmark brutalist office block in Athens

FIELD STUDIES • Fresh thinking for mind, body and home

HOTHOUSE FLOWER • Our dandy dresser is a haughty culturalist

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FRANK BOWLING’S • Pig’s trotters in vodka and beer