Retrospection at Paris Design Week
Baccarat’s collaboration with Harry Nuriev for Paris Design Week
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Anna Solomon, digital employees author
It’s Paris Design Week, and throughout town the doorways of showrooms and ateliers have been thrown open, revealing manufacturers’ 2026 collections. I spent a extremely condensed day criss-crossing arrondissements and dipping out and in of studios (I comfortably hit my 10,000 steps – let’s go away it at that). A number of clearly rising design tendencies stood out: a rising emphasis on versatility and customisability to swimsuit the calls for of recent life (one thing I additionally noticed at Feria Hábitat València again in October), alongside a form of creeping nostalgia. From renewed curiosity in craft and artisanal traditions to a wave of heritage reissues, the previous could be very a lot informing the current. You may learn all of my insights right here.
A brand new voice emerges
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Charlotte Gunn, director of digital content material
This week I’ve been listening to ‘Not Immediately’, the brand new single from Kim Gordon’s upcoming third solo album, Play Me, out on 13 March. Extra melodic – dare I say poppier? – than her current work, Gordon says of the observe: ‘I began singing in a manner I hadn’t sung in a very long time. This different voice got here out.’ Produced by Justin Raisen (who additionally labored on Charli XCX’s ‘BRAT’), it’s a reminder that at 72, Gordon remains to be fortunately mixing issues up.
A style of dwelling
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Sofia de la Cruz, journey editor
Each time I crave the flavours of my motherland, I head straight to one of many eating places of José Pizarro – a Spanish expat, similar to me. He has simply remodeled the storied Keeper’s Home on the Royal Academy of Arts right into a vibrant eating vacation spot, which made the proper excuse. Who would have thought you’d discover Spanish cooking nestled among the many RA’s neoclassical grandeur?
Inside, there’s a compelling dialogue between outdated and new, heat and convivial – prime time is undoubtedly lunch. Deep reds and burnished oranges, impressed by conventional Spanish interiors, set the tone for a menu of Iberian classics with edge: gordal olives filled with orange, octopus with potatoes and capers, lamb ragù over silky mash. And for dessert? Both lose your self within the eclectic curation of artwork – works by Frank Bowling, Marina Abramović, David Remfry and Picasso lithographs, alongside unique work by Eileen Cooper – or give up to the olive oil and almond cake with sharp PX sherry compote.
An ideal pilgrimage
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Anna Fixsen, US editor
On a current go to to my UK in-laws, my husband and I hopped on a prepare to Winchester, England. We drank ale in a pub from 1002 AD, admired what’s supposedly the unique Spherical Desk of Arthurian legend, and took a stroll alongside the River Itchen. The spotlight, by far, nevertheless, was a tour of the spectacular Winchester Cathedral, with its breathtaking mix of Norman, Gothic and Perpendicular Gothic structure.
Right here, you may genuflect on the grave of Jane Austen (the creator simply turned 250 years younger), descend into the depths of a waterlogged Norman crypt – now dwelling to a sculpture by Antony Gormley – and recognize a bunch of historic oddities, from memento mori and mortuary chests stuffed with jumbles of royal bones to at least one peculiar attraction generally known as the ‘Holy Gap’, the place pilgrims may as soon as contact the relics of St Swithin.
Written within the stars
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Invoice Prince, editor-in-chief
On Thursday I took myself off to the Nomad Lodge in London’s Covent Backyard for the launch of a brand new Poetic Assortment of Zodiaque jewelry by Van Cleef & Arpels, which depicts the 12 star indicators in medal type – a hand-stamped signature of the 120-year-old maison for the reason that Nineteen Fifties. The brand new items can be found in white gold and on yellow gold bracelets, and their talismanic magnificence was underlined by the presence of two astrologers on website, desperate to reveal what our personal star indicators maintain in retailer for 2026. (After all, Wallpaper* readers already know, due to our 2026 design horoscope.)
A apply in movement
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Ellie Stathaki, structure & atmosphere director
Catching up with architect Man Hollaway and his managing companion, Alex Richards, this week, I came upon about one of many studio’s greatest current wins: the London Golf Membership. Promising to be a key hospitality and sporting vacation spot on the outskirts of London, the brand new and in depth Kent campus has simply been awarded planning approval. In the meantime, a wealth of schemes are about to finish or are on the drafting board on the vibrant Kent- and London-based structure apply – together with, however not restricted to, a lot of non-public residences and a private favorite, Brompton’s new international headquarters and manufacturing facility in Ashford. Wanting ahead to seeing extra.
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