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Wallpaper

Nov 01 2021
Magazine

Get Wallpaper* digital magazine subscription today. Truly international, consistently intelligent and hugely influential, Wallpaper* attracts the most sophisticated global audience by constantly pushing into new creative territories and ensuring its coverage of everything from architecture to motoring, fashion to travel, art to lifestyle, and interiors to jewelry remains unrivaled. Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd

Wallpaper

CONTRIBUTORS

EDITOR’S LETTER

Paint the town • Take this season’s colour-popping style onto the streets

Wild side • A Geneva garden is a spirited balance of art, architecture and nature

Melting moments • A new candle collection by Celine fuses the art of wax and scent making

Toilet humour • Spend a playful penny in a south London gallery’s whimsical WCs

Art of stone • Sculptor Ian Collings’ monolithic marvels are showing in New York

Six appeal • A posse of prominent women inspire a Sportmax capsule coat collection

Urban legend • Streetwear and sophisticated materials mesh in a Japanese-Italian alliance

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

Shell shockers • Picky Nicky finds good aperitivo snacks a tough nut to crack

Royal flush • A 3D-printed portable toilet offers a snazzier space to answer nature’s call

HOPE AND GLORY • Olivier Dwek creates a treasure trove of 20th century design in Brussels

Classical heroes • Ancient sculptures and a modern design titan inspire a Louis Vuitton collection

Soft power • Inspired by the design of iconic embassies, Thirty Lane perfectly represents Glenn Sestig’s tactful approach

Display case • Travel light with Moncler and Rimowa’s LED screen-emblazoned luggage

WAR & PEACE • Petrit Halilaj looks back to his childhood drawings for a new exhibition at Tate St Ives

Home front • We unveil the winners of our first-ever Smart Space Awards, a striking selection of the best new technology and design products for the home

POWER BROKER • Home is where the art is for American collector and philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton

MODERN TIMES • Combining history, fiction and the abstract, Chinese artist Cao Fei’s dystopian artworks tackle themes such as the automation of labour, hyper-capitalism and, presciently, the effect of a global pandemic. Having just completed her first major solo show in Beijing, the prolific winner of the 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is going global, with her retro-futuristic take on contemporary life now the subject of exhibitions from Los Angeles to Rome, and a 20-page portfolio for Wallpaper*

ASIA ONE • Shot in some of China’s most advanced industrial facilities, Cao Fei’s 2018 Asia One film zooms in on the brave new world of the fulfilment centre, as seen by travellers from the future who stumble across a dusty factory. Flashbacks show the soulless giant sorting centre and its whirring robots in their prime, with a pair of lone human workers accomplishing mindless tasks in an eerily empty space before being interrupted by a surreal dance routine reminiscent of Communist revolutionary operas. The future has arrived, but it’s not exactly what we’ve ordered.

NOVA • Inspired by Cao Fei’s research into the transformation of Beijing’s Jiuxianqiao neighbourhood, the 2019 feature-length science fiction film Nova transcends chronology to create a succession of dreamlike scenes, some of which were shot in the district’s now demolished Hongxia Theatre and its surrounding streets. The main protagonist is a computer scientist, who, in his attempts to turn humans into digital mediums, sends his own son into a virtual limbo between past and future. The timeline is blurred, and our faith in progress...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 180 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: Nov 01 2021

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  • Release date: October 7, 2021

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English

Get Wallpaper* digital magazine subscription today. Truly international, consistently intelligent and hugely influential, Wallpaper* attracts the most sophisticated global audience by constantly pushing into new creative territories and ensuring its coverage of everything from architecture to motoring, fashion to travel, art to lifestyle, and interiors to jewelry remains unrivaled. Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd

Wallpaper

CONTRIBUTORS

EDITOR’S LETTER

Paint the town • Take this season’s colour-popping style onto the streets

Wild side • A Geneva garden is a spirited balance of art, architecture and nature

Melting moments • A new candle collection by Celine fuses the art of wax and scent making

Toilet humour • Spend a playful penny in a south London gallery’s whimsical WCs

Art of stone • Sculptor Ian Collings’ monolithic marvels are showing in New York

Six appeal • A posse of prominent women inspire a Sportmax capsule coat collection

Urban legend • Streetwear and sophisticated materials mesh in a Japanese-Italian alliance

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

Shell shockers • Picky Nicky finds good aperitivo snacks a tough nut to crack

Royal flush • A 3D-printed portable toilet offers a snazzier space to answer nature’s call

HOPE AND GLORY • Olivier Dwek creates a treasure trove of 20th century design in Brussels

Classical heroes • Ancient sculptures and a modern design titan inspire a Louis Vuitton collection

Soft power • Inspired by the design of iconic embassies, Thirty Lane perfectly represents Glenn Sestig’s tactful approach

Display case • Travel light with Moncler and Rimowa’s LED screen-emblazoned luggage

WAR & PEACE • Petrit Halilaj looks back to his childhood drawings for a new exhibition at Tate St Ives

Home front • We unveil the winners of our first-ever Smart Space Awards, a striking selection of the best new technology and design products for the home

POWER BROKER • Home is where the art is for American collector and philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton

MODERN TIMES • Combining history, fiction and the abstract, Chinese artist Cao Fei’s dystopian artworks tackle themes such as the automation of labour, hyper-capitalism and, presciently, the effect of a global pandemic. Having just completed her first major solo show in Beijing, the prolific winner of the 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is going global, with her retro-futuristic take on contemporary life now the subject of exhibitions from Los Angeles to Rome, and a 20-page portfolio for Wallpaper*

ASIA ONE • Shot in some of China’s most advanced industrial facilities, Cao Fei’s 2018 Asia One film zooms in on the brave new world of the fulfilment centre, as seen by travellers from the future who stumble across a dusty factory. Flashbacks show the soulless giant sorting centre and its whirring robots in their prime, with a pair of lone human workers accomplishing mindless tasks in an eerily empty space before being interrupted by a surreal dance routine reminiscent of Communist revolutionary operas. The future has arrived, but it’s not exactly what we’ve ordered.

NOVA • Inspired by Cao Fei’s research into the transformation of Beijing’s Jiuxianqiao neighbourhood, the 2019 feature-length science fiction film Nova transcends chronology to create a succession of dreamlike scenes, some of which were shot in the district’s now demolished Hongxia Theatre and its surrounding streets. The main protagonist is a computer scientist, who, in his attempts to turn humans into digital mediums, sends his own son into a virtual limbo between past and future. The timeline is blurred, and our faith in progress...


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