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Wallpaper

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Shifting sands • Asif Khan sifts through the options offered by Biomason’s biocement tiles to create the ‘Coral Reef’ shelving unit

Sharp focus • Designers Jenkins & Uhnger, Victorinox, and Butchers & Bicycles cut a new path for an ancient street-based tradition

Zero to hero • PriestmanGoode’s planet-friendly food containers offer convenience with a conscience to takeaway cravers

Second act • A watch made from digital landfill offers a timely response to the electronic scrapheap

Load star • Engineered by Hydro, Polestar and Corum, and powered by Cake, Konstantin Grcic’s electric three-wheeler is ready to deliver

Spore patrol • The fashion and sportwear brands on a mission to create a greener future with fungi

Into the woods • Redefining eco-friendly architecture root and branch, BIG and Vestre aspire to create the world’s most sustainable furniture factory

Roll call • Nona Source gives a new lease of life to LVMH’s high-end deadstock fabrics

Post master • A former mail facility in Brussels is redirected as an eco-led, mixed-use quarter

Green list • A trio of projects in Ho Chi Minh City showcase the best of bioclimatic architecture in spades

Garden city • Foliage is fashionable again in Medellin as eco-conscious architecture spreads its roots

Shell raiser • Ethical design brand Nature Squared elevates the egg with its ecologically sustainable collection of wall tiles

Dream weaver • Textile innovator Byborre launches a new platform to empower creators and reduce industry waste

Earthly delights • Piet Oudolf’s garden for Vitra HQ is a natural wonder

Inside story • Brought to you by The Platinum Card® from American Express. A well-edited home is a happy one for Wallpaper* entertaining director Melina Keays. Here, she shares a glimpse of her London base, reflects on thoughtful acquisition, summer pleasures to come, and using her Platinum Card wisely

How do we design a more responsible food industry? • Cooking Sections

How can technology be explained through poetry and play? • Matteo Loglio

Can good housing be accessible to all? • Fernanda Canales

Can synthetic biology solve the world’s problems? • Natsai Audrey Chieza

What will a more inclusive art world look like? • Antwaun Sargent

Can design help us better understand the future? • Yosuke Ushigome

How can VR bring us closer to nature? • Jakob Kudsk Steensen

How can design help the visually impaired? • Simon Dogger

What does fashion still need to fix? • Maxine Bédat and Christian Smith

How do we diversify the design industry? • Diversity in Design

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