Welcome to the July concern, our world round-up of one of the best in design. Our Design Listing options one of the best new seating, tables, beds, lighting, outside furnishings, rugs and extra. We showcase probably the most thrilling kitchen launches, and go to Florentine model Officine Gullo, whose merchandise are primarily based on craftsmanship traditions and whose distinctive house within the metropolis is ready inside a Renaissance chapel, with a powerful bespoke kitchen instead of the altar.
Amongst this yr’s Salone del Cell highlights was Cassina’s ‘Echoes’ exhibition, curated by Patricia Urquiola and Federica Sala. Celebrating 50 years of the model’s reissues of works by design greats, together with Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Charles Rennie Waterproof coat, and Franca Helg and Franco Albini, the present additionally previewed a brand new collaboration with the Eames Basis, which can be formally unveiled in 2024.
We take a tour of Achille Salvagni’s renovated NYC townhouse, a seven-storey constructing reworked into an opulent single-family house. Wallpaper’s US director, Michael Reynolds, who art-directed our shoot, says of Salvagni: ‘His interiors have refined Italian notes, channelling Gio Ponti, Bertolucci and Visconti. His work has great high quality to it, and he is aware of the right way to play with understated decadence. He’s of one other period, a category act. He marches to his personal drum, not of development, however with a singular genuine eye.’
Our House shoot takes inspiration from the curve, as seen in works created by a few of the nice masters of design – Ettore Sottsass, Mario Botta, Tobia and Afra Scarpa, Lella and Massimo Vignelli, Mario Bellini and Aldo Rossi. Some are nonetheless in manufacturing, some reissued, some are museum items, however all are having fun with the limelight in a set impressed by Gae Aulenti’s residence within the Altana Palazzo Pucci in Florence. Our pre-fall style edit, in the meantime, captures an after-dark Eighties temper – all glitz, glamour and smooth, highly effective silhouettes. It was photographed within the Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s new west London outpost Ladbroke Corridor, a 1903 Grade II-listed constructing restored in collaboration with architect David Adjaye.
This month, we additionally rejoice Loewe Basis Craft Prize finalist Tanya Aguiñiga, whose artwork and activism weave collectively tales of transnational identification and the US-Mexico border, go to Fendi’s Roman HQ because it units the scene for a brand new present celebrating the monumental work of Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, and talk about the reinterpretation of Cartier’s elegantly elongated Baignoire watch. And to complete in type, we hop on a ship to Filicudi to take a look at Barber Osgerby’s exhibition at Studio Casoli, an artwork gallery on the Aeolian island (an everyday vacation spot for Edward Barber), the place the British designers current an outline of how their industrial work often merges with craft.
This can be a particular month – it heralds the return of our authentic strapline, *the stuff that surrounds you. Interviewed for our Twenty fifth-anniversary concern in 2021, founder Tyler Brûlé described launching Wallpaper* as ‘a curious, world, barely decadent and infrequently naughty periodical with a ardour for structure, industrial design, entertaining, style, the Nordic world and loads of journey’. And I like this about Wallpaper*, the flexibility to seek out pleasure, inspiration and humour within the designed world round us, so it felt acceptable to reclaim our authentic strapline with the positively democratic use of the phrase ‘stuff’ for the issues that we select to encompass ourselves with. Design continues to counterpoint and encourage, and this concern I hope is testomony to that. Take pleasure in!
Sarah Douglas
Editor-in-Chief
The July 2023 concern of Wallpaper* is on the market in print from 8 June, on the Wallpaper* app on Apple iOS, and to subscribers of Apple Information +. Subscribe to Wallpaper* as we speak
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